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(C. 7.)

Tes. Well! what say you to the Comfort, for "a Lady in sewing, suddenly to "prick her finger, with the needle, to the "bone ?"

Merry. Oh! she then shares the glories of that martyr to spinster-virtues, Queen's Elizabeth's maid of honour, who died by the prick of a needle, and whose monument is the pride of Westminster Abby! It awakens the Lady's attention, seasonably, to the work upon which she is busy. It affords her a good occasion to relax from such unceasing industry with her needle, if she began to be tired of it, and yet was ashamed to leave off! It is a seasonable and convenient blood letting,if the circulation had begun, as often happens in sewing, to be impeded by the continual pressure on the tip of that finger! It presents an opportunity for that association of laughing and crying, both tran sient and momentary, which makes up so much of the gayest comedy and farce of life. What fair sempstress will, now, deny,

that, to wound her finger with her needle, is a Comfort?

Tes. " Hiccupping?"

(C. 8.)

Merry. A slight convulsive motion of the throat, so odd in its sensations and appearances, and so easily conquered, that it can excite nothing but gaiety!

(C. 9.)

Tes. "A pair of tight boots so fastened " on your legs by wetness, that it becomes "next to impossible to pull them off?"

Merry. An excellent opportunity to atchieve the praise of the difficulté surmontée! A summons to an exercise of address, force, patience, and perseverance, for your own relief, which promises you an improvement in these qualities, that shall give you, joy and pride in all your toil and awkward endurance! Besides, you may thus have occasion to eat your dinner or toy with your mistress, one boot on, another off, with all the grace of the heroic prince in the Rehearsal!

Sen. Very well! The Comfort you suggest is sufficiently on a level with the Misery which some have persuaded themselves, that they could not but suffer even from an incident so slight as this.-But, the night advances: the moon sinks behind a cloud; the damps of the evening, make themselves very sensible to my feelings. Let us return to the House; and retire to rest!

Tes. It is time.-Sleep is the most desirable Comfort we can now court.

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MR. Merryfellow, your Chambers are commodious and elegant. There was no occasion for the apology with which you accompanied your invitation-as if you had been asking us to drink a glass of wine in an unfurnished cell, or in a garret.

Sex. Crown-Office-Row is, certainly, one of the most agreeable scenes of residence in the Temple, or even in all London and Westminster. The Garden, here,

immediately on the foreground,-the expanse of the river, and the incessant activity of which it is the scene,-the busy manufactures on the opposite side,—and, in the distance, the rising heights of the Surrey Hills, compose a Summer prospect the most lively and interesting!

Chear. One turns the eyes with pleasure westward, to Westminster-Bridge, Mill-Bank, the Houses of Parliament, the Abbey, and the objects which offer themselves to notice, along that part of the river's winding course!

Merry. Eastward, the view is to my mind not disagreeable-if one have but a taste for the scenery of a river where commerce and population have long supplanted rural beauty. What think you of Blackfriars Bridge-of the grove of masts in the distance beyond,-of the mass, the diversity, the animation of those objects, as far as the eye can stretch its view, down the course of the stream?

Sen. Most interesting, all! The triumphs of human Art and Industry! The causes and the consequences of that civi

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