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TWO COLLEGIANS of hair, not to proclaim his having been their cheating instructor. Discarded from the house, no longer admitted, he acquainted me that Newgate had pawned my flute the day before he went to Newmarket, at a pawnbroker’s in Jermyn Street; when making inquiries there, the year had expired three weeks, when it was publicly sold by auction. Here I may say, like the conjurer—Presto, begone.

Who had lived on friendly terms in college, left the university at the same time; both, soon after, entered into Holy Orders, one being appointed to a curacy in London, and the other to a similar situation in Cornwall. The distance, however, made no alteration in their mutual good feeling, which they continued to keep alive by frequent and friendly correspondence. Many invitations passed between them, which neither could avail himself of, in consequence of the distance. At last, a favourable opportunity offered to the London Curate, and he lost no time in visiting his kind friend in Cornwall, by whom he was most joyfully welcomed, and the two friends were rendered perfectly happy in each other’s society. In the course of a few days, the London Curate perceived that his friend had very little time to spare, being continually employed in christenings, burials, marriages, and writing sermons. It struck him that he might be useful in taking some of the trouble off his friend’s hands, and particularly proposed preaching a sermon on the following Sunday. The other friend thanked him heartily, but said, “Really the people here are so little informed, that your sermon must be carefully worded, or it will not suit their slender comprehen