are stumbled off, and to be stooped for, when you are dead asleep, at every stair, from the ground to the garret.

11. (T.)

At the moment when your horse is beginning to run away with you, losing your stirrupwhich runs away too; and bangs your instep raw, as often as you attempt to catch it with your foot.

12. (S.)

In a summer excursion with a delightful party -having one Black Sheep in your flock, who, though he obtruded himself upon the company, neither enjoys fine scenery, joins in your gaiety, can put up with inconveniencies on the road, nor readily falls in with your travelling arrangements-yet will not take himself away.

13. (T.)

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Being mounted on a beast who, as soon as you have watered him on the road, proceeds very coolly to repose himself in the middle of the pond, without taking you at all into his counsel, or paying the slightest attention to your vivid remonstrances on the subject.

14. (T.)

Sleeping-or rather trying in vain to sleepat an inn, on the assembly night; your chamber being immediately contiguous to the ball room, and your ears assailed, till the time of rising, by the constant din of feet and fiddles-not to mention perpetual irruptions of whole herds of bucks, blundering into your room, full of jest, and roaring for refreshments, &c.-no lock nor bolt to the door.

15. (S.)

On a solitary journey-arriving at a poor town at the time of the fair, or on a market day, and (the only tolerable house being full) being shewn into "the worst inn's worst room," the centre of which is occupied by a large round deal table, well slopped with beer, the whole apartment reeking with the stale fumes of tobacco;-while you remain, your solitude is enlivened by the roaring jócularity of drovers, draymen, poachers, &c. &c. who are idling over their mugs by the fire side, and from whom you are scarcely divided by a thin partition.

16. (T.)

A coach-window-glass, that will not be put up when it is down, nor down when it is up.

17. (T.)

On arriving, with a foundered horse, at a lone inn, with the intention of taking a bed there,— every room occupied; so that you are under the necessity a passing a frosty night in a chair by the side of a sullen fire, which you employ your hours in vainly attempting to feed into a blaze :But lo! the burning fire that shone so bright Flew off, all sudden, with extinguish'd light: That other victor-flame a moment stood, Then fell and lifeless left th' extinguish'd

wood:

For ever lost th' irrevocable light

Forsook the black'ning coals, and sunk to night!" Dryd. Pal. and Arc.

18. (S.)

In travelling on horse-back through an uninhabited country, enquiring your way, as you proceed, of different rustics, each of whom, besides giving you unintelligible directions as to

your road, represents the place in question as many miles farther off than it had been reported by the last; thus making you seem to recede in your progress—not to mention your expense of time and temper, from their anxious and useful enquiries as to the point from which you started, together with their rigmarole wonderings and lamentations at the number of miles which you have travelled out of your way.

19. (T.)

After having, with the utmost difficulty, closed, and locked, and corded, your crammed trunk— being obliged to undo all, in order to get at something which lurks at the very bottom :-this, two or three times over.

20. (T.)

Attempting to pencil memoranda in a carriage, while it is flying along; and this, (for want of a more substantial support,) on a single piece of paper placed in the palm of your left hand.

21. (S.)

The moment of discovering that you have dropped a highly-valued hereditary whip or stick

out of an open carriage, without knowing when or where.

22. (T.)

Getting up early for a journey, with a racking head-ache, which has kept you awake till within half an hour of the time when you are called― the following scene having passed between you and the person who called you :—

"Mane, piger, stertis :-Surge! inquit; eja Surge! Negas. -Instat: surge! inquit:

non queo :-surge!"

23. (S.)

Pers.

While on a visit, without a servant-counting out your linen (shaking piece by piece) for the wash, and setting down a list of it.

24 (S.)

Going to an inn at Newmarket, Epsom, &c. at the close of the race-week, and finding nothing but dirt and confusion-empty larder-servants worn out and dead asleep, &c. and the whole town as dull as a great thaw." Shak.

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25. (T.)

On the road, suddenly finding your stock of