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( 7 ) he would not have ſtaid longer with him; as it was, he thought it highly prudent to open the chaiſe-door, and, at the riſk of his neck, jumpt out and left his mad companion.

When a Rev doctor was preaching in Tottenham-court-road, an enthuſiaſtic deſcriptive ſermon, comparing the ſtate of man to a ſhip at ſea, a preſsgang came into the chapel, and attended to the diſcourſe with much gravity. "Now," ſays the Doctor, "after your calm and fine weather is over, comes a ſudden ſtorm, you are driven on a lee-ſhore, the billows daſh againſt the rocks, and all is horror and death around; your ſails are blown from your yards, your maſts go by the board, you let go your anchors, your very anchor of hope, your cables part; alas! alas! what will ye do?" "Do!" ſays one of the tars, "d—n my eyes, take to the long boat."

A ſea captain being juſt come aſhore, was invited by ſome gentlemen to a hunting match Aſter his ſport was over, he gave his friends this particular account of what paſtime he had: "Our