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 warm. Pray be cool. Nothing contributes so much to good digestion as to be perfectly cool after dinner.

Sir, the Lacedæmonian virgins wrestled naked with young men: and they grew up, as the wise Lycurgus had foreseen, into the most modest of women, and the most exemplary of wives and mothers.

Very likely, sir; but the Athenian virgins did no such thing, and they grew up into wives who stayed at home,—stayed at home, sir; and looked after the husband's dinner,—his dinner, sir, you will please to observe.

And what was the consequence of that, sir? that they were such very insipid persons that the husband would not go home to eat