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( 11 ) that when children diſcovered ſo much genius in their early years, they generally grew very ſtupid when they come to maturity. "If that is the caſe," ſaid C. F "then you muſt have been very remarkable for your genius when you were a child."

One who had been obliged to take up his lodgings in St George's Fields, being brought up by habeas corpus to give evidence on a trial at Weſtminſter Hall, Counſellor Dunning aſked him with a ſneer, Whether he was not a King's Bench Collegian? "Yes, Sir," replied the other, "and I really thought by reſiding there I ſhould have avoided the impertinences of Dunning."

A certain American officer boaſting before one of the generals, that he was wounded in the face in a late action with the royaliſts, his general knowing him to be a coward, at firſt took no notice of what he advanced; but on his repeating the boaſt, only adviſed him, the next time he run away, not to look behind him.