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 have, I presume, read my history of Jack the giant killer." "Oh! undoubtedly;" "which part of it do you think most striking?" "It is all so conspicuous," replied the baronet, "that I find it difficult to select one part, more characteristic of the author, than another: which do you think the best yourself?" "Why, I think the dissertations upon dress, and especially shoe-strings in the time of the ancient Britons, is one of the most profound; but the most pathetic, is the Hero's Adventure in the house of the two giant misers; I think that is fully equal to Livy's story of the Horatii and Curatii, far surpassing any modern historian. This hero's reception from his uncle, is chiefly to be admired, for exhibiting my powers of moral precept and inculcation. An insolent reviewer charged me with borrowing from Mother Goose's tales, especially from Bluebeard,