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 ¬when we found it principally related to the smuggling of chew-chum, a leaf resembling our tobacco. " Oh," said he, on my laughing at the discordancy, " this is a mere mistake, depend upon it, some misprinting — let me turn to another." " Well then," I said, " find me the law which regulates your marriages ;" which he turned up accordingly in a moment, and read its title with an air of triumph ; but he had not read far, when we found it mostly related to horned cattle — he was now rather discon- certed, when I laughed, and said to him, " Oh, this can only be a misprinting — try something else — let me see the act which regulates the functions of your bishops and clergy." " That I can do," he replied ; '* it is now," he said, " before you," as he read the title; but there was little in the body of it, except as to passing- women with child of bastards to their proper parishes, as we at least should call them. It was now my turn to triumph, and I could not help exclaiming, " You have found it, at last, have you ? — your women I hope don't ¬swear ¬