whole scene of action is a swamp. When the enemy has performed his commission by a total defeat of your hopes; when he has completely swept the field, and scattered your whole party in a panic flight, he suddenly breaks up his forces, and quits the ground; leaving you to comfort and amuse yourself, under your loss, by looking at his Colours, in the shape of a most beautiful rainbow, which he displays in his rear.

19. (T.)

In your evening walk-being closely followed, for half an hour, by a large bulldog (without his master) who keeps up a stifled growl, with his muzzle nuzzling about your calf, as if choosing out the fleshiest bite :-no bludgeon.

20. (S.)

Losing your way, on foot, at night, in a storm of wind and rain-and this, immediately after leaving a merry fireside. 21. (S.)

While you are laughing, or talking wildly to yourself, in walking, suddenly seeing a person steal close by you, who, you are sure, must have heard it all; then in an agony of shame, making a wretched attempt to sing, in a voice as like your talk as possible, in hopes of making your hearer think that you had been only singing all the while.

Tes. A forlorn hope, indeed!-if I had been your hearer, I should have said, by way of relieving your. embarrassment, Si loqueris, cantas ; si cantas, cantas malè."

22. (S.)

In attempting to spring carelessly, with the help of one hand, over a five barred gate, by way of shewing your activity to a party of ladies behind you (whom you affect not to have observed,) blundering upon your nose on the other side.

"viribus ille

Confisus, periit, admirandisque lacertis."

23. (8.)

Juv.

In walking out to dinner, clean and smart, becoming hot with your exercise, the consciousness of which makes you still hotter so that, on arriving, too late to repair yourself, you are obliged to sit down to table with a large party, (each of whom is clean and fresh,) with plastered hair—red, varnished faceand black coat besilvered all over with liquid spangles of powder and pomatum.

24. (T.)

Venturing upon a pinch of high dried Irish, in the open air;" a sudden puff of wind emptying your box into your eyes, the moment you open it.

25. (S.)

In returning from a long, hot ride, being overtaken on a common, many miles from home, by a torrent of rain, which so completely drenches your heated body,that you are'obliged, for the preservation of your life, to stop at some lone, mean, public house, undress, and get between the blankets, while your clothes are drying :—then,after you have lain awake like a fool for a couple of hours, doing nothing in the busy part of the day, finding, when you have re-dressed yourself, the rain increasing, night coming on, and no messenger to be had, by whom to send word to your anxious friends, that you must remain where you are all night.

26. (T.)

On a stubborn horse-coming to a no less stubborn gate, when you have either no hooked stick, or one with so gentle a curve, that it lets go its hold as soon as it has taken it; so that you must at last resolve to dismount, though you well know that your horse will afterwards keep you dancing for an bour on one leg, with the other in the stirrup, before he will suffer you to remount him.

27. (T.)

Improving your coachmanship by driving an unbroken horse through a rugged narrow lane, in which the ruts refuse to fit your wheels, and yet there is no room to quarter.

28. (T.)

Attending a sale, from a great distance, for the sole purpose of bidding for an article, which, on your arrival, you are told has just been knocked down for nothing.

29. (S.)

On Chirstmas evee-being dunned by several parties of rural barbarians, on account of having stunned you by screaming and bellowing Christmas carols under your window.

Tes. O, yes, I know them ;-pay them, indeed! "sunt et mihi carmina; me quoque dicunt

While on a visit in the hundreds of Essex, being under the necessity of getting dead drunk every day, to save your life.

Tes. Aye, Juvenal helped you to that fancy : "Et propter vitam, vivendi perdere causas.'

31. (S.).

"

After having sent from the other end of the kingdom to Hookham's for a quantity of well chosen books, all particularly named-receiving in return, six months afterwards, a cargo of. novels, of their own choice, with such titles as "Delicate Sensibility""Disguises of the heart"-" Errors of Tenderness," &c. &c. Then, if you venture, in despair, on a few pages, being edified in the margin by such pencilled commentaries as the following" I quite agree in this sentiment.”—“ How fre

quently do we find this to be the case in real life !”—“But why did she let him have the letter?" &c. &c. concluded by the reader's general decision upon the merits of the book, stamped in one oracular sentence; for example, "This is a very good novel; or (to the horror and confusion of the author, if he should ever hear of the critique) "What execrable stuff!”

Tes. Nay, you well deserve this part of your Missry for looking into such sad trash:

"I, quæso, et tristes illos depune libellos,"

Nec lege" quod quævis nôsse puella velit."

I will give you a country misery, from which there is not a whit less wear and tear to the nerves, and where you have no possible means of escape :-judge for yourself.

32. (T.)

Following on horseback a slow cart, through an endless,narrow lane, at sunset, when you are already too late, and want all the help of your eyes, as well as of your horse's feet, to carry you safe through the rest of your unknown way.

Sen. Very distressing, I allow; but I will shew you that the end of a journey may be still worse than the journey itself:

33. (S.)

After having arrived at home, completely exhausted by a long journey, and delightfully diffused yourself on a sofa for the rest of the evening, (as you fondly suppose,)-being dragged out again, within a quarter of an hour, to take a long walk with a few friends, who are "obliged to go," but who "cannot bear to part withyou so soon"—the party chiefly consisting of ladies, to whom you are, on every account, ashamed to plead fatigue, as an excuse for remaining at home.

34. (T.)

In a very solitary situation—after having sent some miles off for a remarkably clever carpenter, whom you have particulary entreated to come himself, for the purpose of doing a variety of jobs that require both a nice hand, and a contriving headseeing enter,in his stead, a drivelling dormouse, who just knows a hammer from a nail.

35. (S.).

In going out of London, being met and blockaded on the road, by innumerable gangs of the Carrion and Offal of the human species, swarming home, in savage jollity, from a bull baiting, a boxing match, an execution, &c. &c.

36. (S.)

Passing the worst part of a rainy winter in a country so inveterately miry as to imprison you within your own premises; so that, by way of exercise, and to keep yourself alive, you take to rolling the gravel walks, (though already quite smooth) cutting wood, (though you have more logs than enough,) working the dumb bells, or such other irrational exertions.

37. (S.)

In passing the door of a meeting house, in a poor country town, on a wet week day—having before your eyes the depressing spectacle of a handful of dried up old maids, with sallow hatchet faces, in rumpled, faded, old fashioned little bonnets, and brick dust coloured gowns, crawling out by ones and twos, stiffening half curtsies to each other, and then moving off, (as so many pairs of rusty tongs would move, if alive ;) one to her butcher's, to haggle for a bit of tripe, another to take an hour's walk of a quarter of a mile, for an appetite, &c. &c.-Heigh-ho!

38. (S.)

Living, or even making a stay, within close earshot of a ring of execrable bells, execrably rung for some hours every evening