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 and Sentiments. 45 making acquaintance with the female cook. The latter feems to have been interrupted in the att of taking fome objeft out of the caldron with a flelh-hook. The caldron here again is three-legged. In the fequel, No. 99. 7/v Holy-Watev Clerc and the Cook. the acquaintance between the cook and the holy-water clerc appears to have ripened into love ; but we may prefume from the manner in which it was reprefented (No. 100), that this love was not of a very difuiterefted No. 100. Interefted Frietidjhip. charader on the part of the clerc, for he is taking advantage of her affeftion to fteal the animal which flie is boiling in the caldron. The u conventional