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( 5 ) pay his debts, aſſuring him, that  would never trouble him.

ſhewing a lady the fine in Trinity College, and, among  rest of the books, were his own writings curiouſly bound, aſked the, "How ſhe liked the binding?" The lady anſwered, "They were handſome, but ſhe choſe rather  have his works in ſheets.

Frank was once going in a return -chaiſe from Bath to Briſtol, when poſt-boy, for the ſake of encreaſing his perquiſite, took up another paſſenger a short way from the city, who  out to be a mighty diſagreeable -traveller; for he was not only  corpulent, but was much addicted to expel wind at both ; add to this, it was pretty warm weather, and the ffvia of the hoſe was very obnoxious. Under theſe diſagreeable circumstances. Frank began o meditate how he ſhould get rid of his companion, without being at the expence of another vehicle; and his imagination ſupplied him, upon his A3