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 "Have you seen his quarto volume—'The Cure for the Catholic Question?'"

"Yes."

"If you have it, lend it to me. What kind of thing is it?"

"Oh! what should it be!—ingenious, and imbecile. He advises the Catholics, in the old nursery language, to behave like good boys—to open their mouths, and shut their eyes, and see what God will send them."

"Well, that's the usual advice. Is there nothing more characteristic of the writer?"

"What think you of a proposition of making Jocky of Norfolk Patriarch of England, and of an ascertained credo for our Catholic fellow-subjects? Ingenious—isn't it?"

"Have you seen Puff's new volume of Ariosto?"

"I have. What could possibly have induced Mr. Parthenopex Puff to have undertaken such a duty? Mr. Puff is a man destitute of