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54 undisturbed, and it has probably preserved them from a journey to Westminster Abbey.

It may not be out of place to add here two remarkable foreign inscriptions:—

On an ancient monument of whitish marble, in the "New Church" at Amsterdam, are engraved a pair of slippers of a very singular kind, with the two words Essen Uyt, which mean "exactly." The story is, that a man tolerably rich, and who dearly loved good eating, took it into his head that he was to live a certain number of years, and no longer. Under this idea, he counted that if he spent so much a-year, his estate and his life would expire together. It happened by chance that he was not deceived in either of these computations: he died precisely at the time he had prescribed to himself in his imagination; and had then brought his fortune to such a pass, that after paying his debts he had nothing left but a pair of slippers. His relations buried him creditably, and would have his slippers carved on his tomb, with the above-mentioned laconic device.

In a churchyard at Marle, in France, is the following enigma:—

Which may be rendered in English thus:—

Here lies the son, here lies the mother, Here lie the daughter, with the father,