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the faculty are medical tinkers, who, in endeavouring to patch up one blemish in the human frame, never fail to make ten." He thought bellows-makers, undertakers, and trunk makers very extravagant fellows, on account of their great waste of nails, which profusion he thought unnecessary, The only food he offered his sister during her indisposition was her usual allowance of cold dumpling and sticking of beef, accompanied with the affectionate declaration, that if she did not like it she might go without. The kindness of Lady Tempest and Captain Holmes, who inherited the whole of Mr Dancer's fortune, made ample amends for her brother's inhumanity, and soothed her dying moments. In consideration of her tenderness, Miss Dancer intended to have left Lady Tempest the property she possessed, to the amount of 2000l. She however, expired before she signed her will, which she had directed to be made, on which her two other brothers who were equally celebrated for pars'mony, put in their claim for a share of her fortune. To this proposal Daniel refused to accede, and a law suit ensued; the result was, that he recovered 1040l. of his sister's property, as the price of her board for thirty years, at 30l.per annum, and 1001. for the two last years, in which he declared she had done nothing but eat and lie in bed. What remained after