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 ¬lie then left me, but first taking nie kindly by the hand, and saying he would return as soon as he had got rid of some vulgar people who were waiting to see him. — He had not been gone a moment when the barber re-appeared, but without the clothes : he walked about the room, without taking the smallest notice of me, until upon my friend's return, whom I had apprized of my disappointment, they came up to me together, laughing immoderately and most obviously at my expense, Cathmor holding his sides from the convulsion of his mirth, whilst he said, or rather attempted indistinctly to say to me, " My good friend, this is not the barber, as you imagined, but one of the highest of our grandees, who is come down to visit a relation on board the fleet. " — What rendered this suffi- ciently absurd scene more completely ridiculous, was the return at the same moment of the actual barber himself; and when he had laid down his bundle, the nobleman and the shaver were like brothers; no more to be distinguished than twins arc even by midwives at their births. ¬Handy ¬ /n