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 couches and arm-chairs, if the poor carpenters, and upholsterers, and joiners, who have had all the labour of constructing them, can't find a seat for their weary limbs!"

"What you advance there, Sir," said Mr. Scope, "I can't dispute; but still, Sir, I presume, putting this young lady always out of the way; you will not controvert my position, that the morals of state require, that a proper distinction should be kept up, between the instruments of subsistence, and those of amusement."

"You are right enough, Mr. Scope," cried Miss Bydel; "for if singing and dancing, and making images, are ever so pretty, one should not pay folks who follow such light callings, as one pays people that are useful."

"I hope not, truly!" said Mrs. Maple.

Mr. Scope, thus encouraged, went on to a formal dissertation, upon the morality of repressing luxury; which was so cordially applauded by Miss Bydel; and enforced by sneers so personal and