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322 he goes!" and for mine host of the Jolly Angler, that though we have not the physical constitution to quaff "a bumper of blue ruin," we shall be very happy, over any tolerable wine, and in company with any agreeable convivialists, to bear our part in the polished chorus of—

Mrs. Lobkins departed this life like a lamb; and Dummie Dunnaker obtained a licence to carry on the business at Thames Court. He boasted, to the last, of his acquaintance with the great Captain Lovett, and of the affability with which that distinguished personage treated him. Stories he had too about Judge Brandon, but no one believed a syllable of them; and Dummie, indignant at the disbelief, encreased, out of vehemence, the marvel of the stories: so that, at length, what was added almost swallowed up what was original, and Dummie himself might have been puzzled to satisfy his own conscience as to what was false and what was true.

The erudite Peter Mac Crawler, returning to Scotland, disappeared by the road: a person,