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 trick to a Spartan, he told him, vauntingly, You could not preserve that posture so long. I know that, replied the Lacedemonian, but a goose can.

Mrs Siddons, in performing the character of Jane Shore, having arrived at the conclusion of that affecting tragedy, where she says, "Now, I die! I die!" falls down, nature being supposed entirely exhausted.- A sailor, perched on the front of the shilling Gallery, forgetting that the distress of the actress was feigned, roared out to the pit, Ho! why don't some of you lubbers in that there hold hand the poor woman a can of grog, since she is so badly?"

Dr Franklin, when last in England, used pleasantly to repeat an observation of his negro-servant, when the Doctor was making the tour of Derbyshire, Lancashire, &c. "Every thing, Massa, work in this country; water work; wind work; fire work; smoke work; dog work; (he had noticed the last at Bath) man work; bullock work; horse work; ass work; every thing work here but the hog; he eat, he drink, he sleep, he do