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( 14 ) in the man's behalf, the other ſaid, he believed the fellow might be a good man, but he could not always command his temper. The veteran officer obſerved, that he had been always ſeen to command it in company of his equals. The macaroni then ſaid, that was becauſe they never provoked him, nor looked ſcornfully at him. "I am of a different opinion," anſwered his brother officer, ſurveying him with a look of ſupreme contempt; "I have now contradicted you, and am at this time provoking you much more than the poor fellow did, and yet you bear it with all the calmneſs of philoſophy." The other ſneaked off and thus proved, that his courage was juſt equal to his humanity"

A phyſician, boaſting his great knowledge in his profeſſion, ſaid he never heard any complaint from his patients. Frank Merryman being in company, wittily replied, "very likely, doctor, for the faults of phyſicians are generally buried with their patients.

Frank, a man admired for his wit, but whoſe fault was, that he would