Monkstown, co. Cork, Feb. 18. 1851.
[Bailey, in his _Dictionary_, says, "An abele-tree is a fine kind of
white poplar." See also Chambers' _Cyclopædia_.]
_Southey._--There is a _jeu d'esprit_ attributed to Southey, on the
expedition of Napoleon into Russia, beginning,--
"Buonaparte must needs set out
On a summer's excursion to Moscow,"
and ending,--
"But there's a place which he must go to,
Where the fire is red, and the brimstone blue,
Sacre-bleu, ventre-bleu,
He'll find it hotter than Moscow."