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No, no! let us have every thing as it should be. In the first place then, says I, in respect that he is so sharp, and so fussy, and so bouncing, he may be compared to your poor bottled small-beer: and in the second place, in respect that he is so loud and violent, and so hasty, he may be compared

Yaw! yaw! yaw! (yawning again very loud.)

Tut, man! can't you keep those jaws of yours together, and hear what a body says?

Yaw, yaw! Dont think because I yawn, David, that I don't hear what you say.—But go on with your story: in the second place

In the second place, says I, in respect that he is so violent and so loud, and so hasty, he may be compared to the letting off of a

Of a train of gun-powder.

No, sir; it was not to that, sir.