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 character, and of the Protestant religion ; must attend-prayers twice a day, and divine worship four times on Sunday; he able to bear confinement, have the fear of God before his eyes, and be master for two hundred weight. Wages fourteen shillings a week, and find himself.

A man seeing in the street an old woman who drove some asses, said. Adieu, mother of asses, Adieu, adieu, my son, answered she.

A Quaker was examined before the Board of Excise, respecting certain duties ; the Commissioners thinking themselves disrespectfully treated by his thee-and thouing, one of them with a stern countenance, asked him—Pray, Sir, do you know for what we sit here ? Yea, replied Nathan, I do—some of you for a thousand, and others for seventeen hundred and fifty pounds a year.

Comparisons of Drunkenness.—A man is said to as drunk as an owl, when he cannot see—as drunk as a sow, when he wallows in the dirt—as drunk as a beggar, when he is very impudent—as drunk as the devil, when he is inclined to mischief, and—as drunk as a Lord, when he is every thing that is bad.

Walking Stewart having given an account of his being cast away on an unknown coast, thus expresses himself: ‘ After walking a considerable way up the country, we saw, to our inexpressible