bobs;-or, when you have hooked a fine large jack, seeing him take French leave, at the moment when you are courteously shewing him his nearest way to the bank.

3. (T.)

On springing, at the right distance, the only covey you have seen, at the end of a long day's fag— flash in the pan.

4. (T.)

In hunting-while you are leading the field, and just running in upon the fox, with the brush full in your hopes-being suddenly left in the lurch, or in other words,-in the ditch.

Sen. Tremendous, indeed!-This is according to Mr N's method of representing a man as in at the death;"-you have seen it, I suppose, at Fores's window, in Piccadilly?

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Tes. No; but I'll get it immediately ;— "How far is't called to Fores?"

Sen. Too far for a man of your temper ;I will give you mine.

5. (T.)

In archery-the string of your bow snapping, at the moment when you have made sure of your aim.

Sen. Almost as bad:-this is the "debun λalyn Coo" in a new sense.- -But let us have done with what are vulgarly called "out-door amusements;"-one Groan for every principal field-sport may serve for a sample:sportsmen could produce a thousand more; but all men are not sportsmen; and we, you know, have only to do with general Miseries— the common currency of human existence.

Tes. Common, do you call it! Humph!— if this is the common currency, I can only say, that, from some plaguy twist in our horoscope, you and I seem to have pocketed all the basest pieces.-By the bye, I have not yet done with the open air, and its amusements. -You must know that my youngest boy Tom, now at home for the holidays, came up to me yesterday, and told me that, having lately overheard us at our "Groans," he had bethought himself of setting down a few "School-miseries"-and so put them into my hands. I was pleased at the circumstance, as it served to shew, that even boyhood, the happiest period of man's life--and schooldays, which we are apt to look upon as the happiest part of that happiest time,—are by

no means exempt from the general tax upon living and breathing:-nay, even my last little one, now at the breast, told me half an hour ago, as plain as a baby could speak it, of an infantine misery; viz.

6. (Testy's Baby.)

A dry wet-nurse.

Well, but now to poor Tom's list, which, I see, he has entitled

TEN SCHOOL-MISERIES.

7. (Tom T.)

1. Waking, in a bitter winter-morning, with the recollection that you are immediately to get up by candle-light, out of your snug warm bed, to shiver out to school, through the snow, for the purpose being flogged as soon as you arrive.

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Eh, Sensitive?-I don't think the blackest beard among us can go beyond that?—This Misery is what I would call a mental cold pig.

8. (Tom T.)

2. Seeing the boy who is next above you flogged for a repetition, which you know you cannot say even half so well as he did.