53. (T.)

When parched with thirst, opening your last bottle of spruce beer, and finding it so very good, that it first washes your face and hands, and then your walls and furniture, with the whole of its contents.

Sen. Nay, the contrary is quite as bad, viz.

54. (S.)

At the instant of drawing the cork, starting back, from the eagerly expected burst of froth—but without the least occasion either for your hopes or fears -the liquor all remaining in the bottle as quiet as a lamb.

55. (T.)

After a frosty journey-preparing mulled wine. for yourself and friends; then,-after it has remained the proper time upon the fire, and just as you are taking it off, and all are rousing for the comfortable regale-seeing an avalanche of soot plump into the pot.

56. (S.)

While you are swallowing a raspberry, discovering by its taste, that you have been so unhappy as to occasion the death of a harmless insect!

57. (T.)

Your tongue coming in contact with the skin of a peach.

Sen. Yes, or even the mind coming in contact with the idea!

58. (T.)

Your sensations about the throat and chest, after having too hastily forced down a piece of very hard dry biscuit-just as if you were swallowing a nutmeg-grater three or four yards long.

Tes. "The pleasures of the table!"-yesa sly ironical rogue was he that first hit upon that expression.-I fancy my dog Rover, there, if we could understand him, would give us a much better account of the pleasures under the table:-for there he gnaws his bone in comfort, without asking any questions about the cookery-and, what is best of all, he is not considered as one of the company.

Sen. No; he, as you say, modestly keeps his hunger in the back ground; while we cannot obey this coarse necessity, without assembling from all quarters, to see each other first

go through the vile operation, and then rince and scour away its effects-nay, without telling the rest of the county, by sound of bell, what a delicate scene is going on in the diningroom!

Tes. Aye-this is one of the blessings of having what they call " a good house over one's head!"

Sen. Yes;-one, as you say;-but it is only one out of a million: there are other rooms in a house besides the dining-room, you know --which leads me, by the bye, to propose these as the next subject of our animadversions, under the general title of "Miseries Domestic."

Tes. A better there cannot be, and I will again undertake to play my part to admiration-whatever Madam Testy, in the corner yonder, may think of the matter. You can't propose a meeting upon it too early for meto-morrow, if you please.

Sen. It must be not only to-morrow, but "to-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow," if we mean to exhaust it;-as there is so much to be said, then, we cannot begin too soon, as you say; and especially, as the sorrows

we have in view may be said to come so very home to us, and, (in the mercantile language) are so constantly " in the course of arrival," that we require no preparation, as on most former occasions.

Tes. Breakfast, and pass the day with me to morrow :-if we begin then, we shall have some chance of coming to a conclusion by bed-time.

Sen. I will attend you; and, short as the notice is, I'll engage that the list will be lengthened, on both sides, by many a Groan that will escape us in the interval.

Tes. Ten o'clock precisely, mind,—or I sit down without you.

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DIALOGUE THE TENTH.

THE

MISERIES DOMESTIc; INCLUDING DRESSING-ROOM, AND BED-CHAMBER.

Testy, Senior and Junior.-Sensitive. (Testy's House.)

Testy.

SIT down, Sensitive; sit down.-I wish you may be able to make out any thing like a meal. We should have had a rare opportunity for remarks, here, if we had not lately taken such good care of the breakfast table in that way. As it is, make yourself as little of a wretch as you can-You would have had neither tea nor sugar, I can tell you, if I had not kicked open the tea-chest, a minute before you came in; for Mrs Testy, as usual

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