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( 16 ) you on truly Chriſtian principles.—— "How ſo?" ſays the man. "Why," returned Frank, Yon was a ſtranger, and they took you in."

Mr Merryman, being in company, among whom there was a gentleman who was remarkable for a kind of rude ſatyrical wit, and who having levelled his jeers at almoſt all preſent, chiefly by mimicking their voice, geſtures, or taking them off, as it is commonly called; Frank expecting it would preſently come to his turn, got up and was going away. When being aſked the reaſon of his leaving the company ſo ſoon, he replied, In order to ſave the gentleman the trouble of taking me off, I think it beſt to take myſelf off; and ſo departed.

A great crowd being gathered about a poor cobler, who had juſt died in the ſtreet, a man aſked the watchman what was to be ſeen? Only a cobler's end, replied he.

As a boy was leading a calf with both hands, a nobleman happened to paſs by a the highway: the boy,