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 ing and total suppression of urine. At length the pupil dilated to its utmost capacity, the intervals of respiratory movements gradually lengthened, and that peculiar metal- lic sound accompanied each expiration which marks the moribund state. We beg our professional readers to believe that we never pretended to claim credit for this recovery, so clearly a miracle of Providence! 18 We can almost hear the vile calumniator of every virtue exclaiming, "What a fool, he hadn't the spirit of a mouse !" , Pardon, sir, nothing is wanting in this picture — not even the physical courage of which you make so much. Eeturning to his home one day at an unwonted hour, he was "presented" to the coxcomb, who was comfortably seated in the drawing-room. He bowed him civilly out, and then quietly remarking to his wife that he feared the "gentleman was not a proper person to visit her," he made no further allusion to the subject. Eeturning again "quite unexpectedly," a day or two afterward, he found "my gentleman" in the act of ringing for admission. Not a word was exchanged, but a brief "sparring exhibition" transpired on the sidewalk, out of which emerged one of the contestants with a physiognomy seriously damaged. It is needless to explain that our conjugal hero was not the "injured party." It was probably this incident which precipitated the escapade.

19 We know of a certain father who skillfully managed a "cure" by taking the young man into his family and there "exhibiting his paces" with such tact and skill, that the young lady soon presented "the mitten." Not a word was said against the young gentleman from first to last.