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progress at the astonishing rate of one couplet per day. The window-sill might do well enough for that.

But you think of former times, my friend; rhyming becomes easier by practice.

So it does, like all other things; and I dare say you can now write two couplets per day with no great difficulty.

Don't trouble thy head about my progress; let us set out on our visit to Sir Cameron. His mansion is scarcely a mile off, I am told. He is a kind-hearted fellow; he will be glad to see us.

Yes, if he do not take it into his head that we have some covert design in our visit.

Some covert design!

Ay; sounding his intentions as to standing for the county: propitiating his patronage for some itinerant artist or lecturer: introducing to his acquaintance some forward chaperon, with a troop of female cousins at her back, to invade the daily peace of his home. O dear! what will