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 12 going to the New Jeruſalem. Ah ! dear, ſaid ſhe, I think the air of Illington would do you more good A young lady who had been married but a ſhort time ſeeing her huſband going to riſe pretty early in the morning ſaid, What my dear. are you getting up already; pray lie a little longer and reſtyourſelf. No my dear replied the huſband, I'll get up and reſt myſelf. One loſing a bag of money of about fif- ty pounds, between the Temple Gate and Temple Bar, fixed up a paper, offering a reward to thoſe who took it and ſhould re- turn it. Upon which the perſon that had it came and wrote underneath it to the follow- ing effect : Sir, I thank you for the offered reward, but indeed you really bid me to my loſs. One ailor coming to another on a pay-day, deſired to borrow twenty ſhil- lings of him. The monied men fell to telling out the ſum in ſhillings, but a half- crown thurſting in its head, put him out, and he began to tell again; but then an in pertinent crown piece was as impu- dent as his half brother had been, and again interrupted the tale; ſo that taking