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 a dicoure aroe between the two ladies, not proper to be repeated, if I knew every particular; but ended at the lat, in the unmarried lady’s declaring to the bride, that he thought her husband looked more like a woman than a man. To which the other replied in triumph, he was the bet man in Ireland.

This and the ret which pat, was faithfully recounted to Mrs. Hamilton by her wife, at their next meeting, and occaioned our young bridegroom to bluh, which the old lady perceiving and regarding as an effect of youth, fell upon her in a rage of love like a tygres, and almot murdered her with kies.

One of our Englih Poets remarks in the cae of a more able husband than Mrs. Hamilton was, when his wife grew amorous in an uneaonable time.

"The doctor undertood the call, But had not always wherewithal."

So it happened to our poor bridegroom, who having not at that time the wherewithal about her, was obliged to remain meerly paive, under all this torrent of kindnes of his wife; but this did not dicourage her, who was an experienced woman, and thought he had a cure for this coldnes in her husband, the efficacy of which, he might perhaps have eayed formerly. Saying therefore with a tender mile to her husband, I believe you are a woman, her hands began to move in uch direction, that the dicovery would abolutely have been made, had not the arrival of dinner, at that very intant, prevented it.

However, as there is but one way of laying the pirit of curioity, when once raied in a woman, viz. by atisfying it, o that dicovery, though Rh