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( 19 ) was an arch fellow tu attacked him: "Why, they tell me my friend that you are a very wiſe man" "May be ſo, ſays the fellow" "And that you know all London," continued the ſcholar "and every body in it; Pray, can you tell where I live?" "In Knave's Acre," ſays the carrier; "Ay, but I'm about to move," ſays the Oxonian:"And that will be to Tyburn," quoth the other.

In one of the floods in 1785, a farmer's wife was taken in labour, and no perſon proper to aſſiſt her living nearer than ſeven miles, the good huſband rode with the utmoſt ſpeed to Dr Rhubarb, whom he begged inſtantly to go to his wife. The doctor being a knowing one, declared, though his uſual fee was two guineas at ſuch a diſtance, when no danger appeared; yet now, (ſaid he) as I muſt go at the imminent hazard of my life, I ſhall not budge one foot, unleſs you agree to give me ten guineas. The farmer in vain remonſtrated on his inability to perform ſuch a demand: Rhubarb was inflexible.The honeſt countryman's love to