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( 14 ) appearing round his face, and this black tray wig at the top of all!

One dark night Mr. Elwes, hurrying along, went with uch violence againt the pole of a edan chair, that he cut both his legs very deep'y! As uual he thought not of any aitance, but Colonel Timms, at whole houe he then was, in Orchard Street, inited upon calling a doctor: He at length ubmitted, and an apothecary in conequence attended; who immediately began to expatiate on the bad conequences of breaking the kin; the good fortune of his being ent for; and the peculiar bad appearance of Mr. Elwes's wound. —Very probably, aid Mr. Elwes —But, Mr. I have one thing to ay to you:— In my opinion, my legs are not much hurt: Now, you think they are. — So I will make this agreement; I will take one leg, and you hall take the other; you hall do what you pleae with your's, and I will do nothing to mine: And I will wager your bill, that my leg gets well before your's — He exultingly beat the apothecary by a fortnight!

The rooms of his eat at Stoke, that were now much out of repairs and wou'd have all fallen in, but for his on; John Elwes, Eq: who had reided there, he thought too expenively furnihed, and that wore things might have done — If a window was broken, there was no repair, but that of a little brown paper, or that of piecing in a bt of broken glas, which had, at length, been done o frequently, and in o many hapes, that it would have puzzled