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120 to do with the administration; and our comfort at present, is the comfort of fallen ministers!"

"Oho! you were in the methodist line, before you took to the road?" said Nabbem.

"Not so!" answered Augustus gravely, "we were the methodists of politics, not of the church, viz. we lived upon our flock without a legal authority to do so, and that which the law withheld from us, our wits gave. But tell me, Mr. Nabbem, are you addicted to politics?"

"Why, they says I be," said Mr. Nabbem with a grin, "and for my part, I thinks all who sarves the King should stand up for him, and take care of their little families!"

"You speak what others think!" answered Tomlinson, smiling also, "and I will now, since you like politics, point out to you what I dare say you have not observed before."

"What be that?" said Nabbem.

"A wonderful likeness between the life of the gentlemen adorning his Majesty's senate, and the life of the gentlemen whom you are conducting to his Majesty's gaol."