Show Letter by Thomas Hood A letter wrltten by tho poet Thomas Hood to My very dear Marianne changed hands nt a public sale In London Lon-don the other day for the consideration considera-tion of 950 Tho letter has the following fol-lowing quaint conclusion Thero Is n tale of a little prince who had a ruby heart and whatever ho wished on It was Instantly granted but It is not so with mine Neither have I Aladdins lamp or It should have boen scrubbed bright ere the Chelmsford ball but now it is a dark lanthorn and the glory of Fairyland is bedimmed forever Only the fiery dragons remain which are many and fcaiful and the black cats and tho demons and Imps and the ogres who are tho booksellers except that they have no eyes in their foreheads fore-heads |