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buttocks! I leave it to the judgement of any ten taylors in town, if thirty pair of men's breeches may not be cut, from a little above the casing of Bessy's bum, and this makes her a motherly woman, as stately a fabric as ever strade to market or mill. But when she's married, she turns a madam, her mistress did not work much, and why should she? Her mother tell'd ay she wad be a lady, but cou'd never show where her lands lay; but when money is all spent, credit broken, and conduct out of keeping, a wheen babling bubly bairns, crying piece minny, partch minny, the witless wanton waster is at her wit's end. Work now or want, and do not say that the world has war'd you; but lofty Noddle, your giddy-headed mother has led you astray, by learning you to be a lady, before you was fit to be a servant-lass, by teaching you laziness instead of hard labour, by giving you such a light conceit of yourself, that no body thinks any thing of you now, and you may judge yourself to be one of t1fe, that wise people call Little- worth; but after all, my dear dirty-face, when you begin the warld again, be perfectly rich before you be gentle, work hard for what you gain, and you'll ken better how to guide it, for pride is an unperfect fortune, and a ludicrous life will not last long. Another sort I see, who has got more silver than sense, more gold than good nature, more muslins and means than good manners; though