disposing the live coals over the carpet, and among the petticoats of the ladies.

5. (S.)

Feeling your arm and elbow cold—and, on looking farther into the matter, perceiving that you have long been leaning in slop, which has dabbled you to the skin.

6. (T.)

Squatting plump on an unsuspected cat in your chair.

7. (T.)

At going to bed-after having long toiled, scorched, and melted yourself, in raking out a large and obstinate fire, which, at last, you seem to have effected-seeing it, as you turn round at the door, burning and roaring up far more fiercely than ever.

Sen. Aye; and this, two fires, instead of one.

8. (T.)

In attempting to throw up cinders, oversetting and scattering them far and wide, by dashing the edge of the shovel, as if with a violent determination, against the upper bar of the grate.

9. (T.)

Fumbling in vain at a rusty refractory door-lock, of which the hasp flies backward, and there sticks -so that you are at last obliged to leave the door flapping and whining on its un-oiled hinge, and fanning you into an ague-your own fury furnishing the fever.

10. (T.)

Sitting for hours before a smoky chimney, like a Hottentot in a craal;-then, just as your sufferings seem, at last, to be at an end-puff, puff!-whiff, whiff!-again, far more furiously than ever.

11. (T.)

Waking, stiff and frozen, from a long sleep in your chair, by the fire-side; then crouching closer and closer over the miserable embers, for want of courage to go up to bed; and so, keeping in the cold to be warm!-when you go at last, your candle stinks out in the passage, and you are left to grope your way, blundering, and breaking your shins at every step, against the bannisters;-every stair, too, creaking and groaning under your weight, though you tread as tenderly as possible, for fear of waking the house, consisting chiefly of invalids,

whom you feel that you are rousing, one after another, from their dozes, as you pass their several doors.

12. (S.)

Elbowing both your candles off the table, and then setting them, up in this state:

Toiling at a rotten cork with a broken screw, and so dragging it out piece-meal-except the fragments which drop into the bottle.

14. (S.)

Grinding coals or cinders into the carpet, in turning up your heel;-then, after stooping, in a frenzy, to pick up the filthy fragments, and at last walking away satisfied that you have done so,

crushing fresh parcels of them in other parts ;-and

so on for an hour.

15. (S.)

After taking infinite pains to paste a drawing, or other choice thing, very nicely, seeing the paper, with all your pressing and smoothing in one part, start up in a thousand bulbous blisters in other places.

16. (S.)

Just as you have finished dressing yourself more nicely than usual, to receive company at dinner,creeping down into a dark, damp cellar, for wine; and unexpectedly finding, from a sudden chill about the lower part of the leg, that you are going by

water.

17. (T.)

Setting your breakfast-kettle-(I forgot this in its proper place)-Setting your breakfast-kettle on coals which, though very free of their smoke, you cannot, by any arguments, induce to afford you a

flame.

18. (S.)

Losing the keys of all your most private repositories; by which you suffer a double embarrass

ment-that you cannot, yourself, get at what you want; and that they have, probably, fallen into the hands of others, who both can, and will.

19. (S.)

After having ordered from London some article of dress, furniture, ornament, &c. to be made on some particular model, which you had most solicitously explained to the workman before you went into the country, receiving it, at length, at the moment when it is most wanted-with this only draw-back on your satisfaction, that it is so perversely wrong, in all possible respects, as to be absolutely useless!

20. (S.)

Going on with a servant in whose honesty you have strong reasons for suspecting a leak, though not quite strong enough to warrant you in proceeding to a close charge, and search.

21. (T.)

Beginning your residence at the country-house to which you have just removed, before the repairs are finished-with the comfort of picking your way from one ruined room to another, through fragments of peeled mortar, broken bricks, scattered axes, adzes, chissels, &c.--and, at length, being invaded