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 credit for a little more wisdom than appears upon my outside;—and as we jogg on, either laugh with me, or at me, or in short do any thing,—only keep your temper.

the same village where my father and my mother dwelt, dwelt also a thin, upright, motherly, notable, good old body of a midwife, who, with the help of a little plain good sense, and some years full employment in her business, in which she had all along trusted little to her own efforts, and a great deal to those of dame Nature,—had acquired, in her way, no small degree of reputation in the world;—by which word world, need I in this place inform your worship, Rh