37. (S.)

Eagerly breaking open a letter, which, from the superscription, you conclude to be from a dear, and long-absent friend; and then, finding it to contain nothing but a tradesman's long bill, which, moreover, you thought had been long ago discharged-but of which immediate payment is demanded in a very valiant letter, enclosing the account:-cash very low.

38. (S.)

Walking fast, and far, to overtake a woman, from whose shape and air, as viewed en derriere, you have settled that her face is angelic; till, at length, on eagerly turning round, as you pass her, you are petrified by a Gorgon!

Ned Tes. A dismal transition indeed, from "O dea, certè!" (Virg.)—to

"remove fera monstra, tuæque

Saxificos vultus, quæcunque ea, tolle Medusæ !"

Y

Ovid.

39. (S.)

After having bought, and paid for, some expensive article, as thinking you had lost such another, unexpectedly finding the latter; then endeavouring, in vain, tó persuade the iron shop-keeper to take back your purchase, and return the money.

40. (T.)

Struggling through the curse of trying to disentangle your hair, when, by poking curiously about on board of ship, it has become matted with pitch or tar, far beyond all the

the comb :

powers of

Ned Tes. "Non comptæ mansêre comæ― Et rabie fera corda tument!"

41. (T.)

Virg.

In sea-bathing-the endless time during which, after having thrown off your last garment, you stand crouching and shivering, till the creeping old bather is ready to assist in suffocating you.

42. (S.)

Suddenly finding, safe in your pocket, three

or four letters of the most pressing consequence, which had been entrusted to you a week or fortnight before, by a person hardly known to you," upon the faith of your promise to put them into the post within an hour.

43. (S.)

Suddenly missing your snuff-box after dinner, in a country-place, where you are leagues off from the possibility of a pinch :-then, in your longing agony, snuffing up, with your mind's nose, the well-stored canisters of a London shop:

Tes. "So scented the grim Feature, and upturn'd

His nostril wide into the murky air,

Sagacious of his quarry from so far!" Milt.

44. (S.)

As a candidate-being thrown out by a casting vote; and this, when your party was so strong, that many of your friends have kept away, on the certainty that you would muster far more than enough, without them.

Tes. A strangely perverse Misery, as I ever heard of: Why this is actually neither more nor less, than being starved by repletion!

Sen. I preface my next Misery, Mr. Testy, by reminding you that I am a public speaker :

45. (S.)

Inveterate huskiness coming on you, at the moment of beginning your address to a crowded audience.

46. (S.)

After having long hunted in vain for a missing bank-note of 100%. and just as you are in the act of accusing an honest servant, on very suspicious appearances, of having made a perquisite of it,suddenly spying out the last rag of its remains in the mouth and paws of a puppy, who had carefully secreted it for his own private recreation.

47. (S.)

Paying the bills of blacksmiths, butchers, "et hoc genus omne," and receiving, in change, 17. notes, silver, and halfpence, in a condition which but too strongly impresses upon

your mind the truth of the adage, that "riches are but dirt!?'

48. (S.)

While you are gravely and anxiously setting your watch by the Horse-Guards, towards dusk, -being suddenly relieved from your trouble by the snatch of a thief,—who vanishes for ever!

49. (S.)

Learning, among other interesting communications in a letter just received from a dear friend in India, or America, that about a dozen of your last pacquets, on both sides, have miscarried.

50. (S.)

In passing through St. James's Park, towards the evening of a November day, -seeing the sprinkling of disconsolate Quizzes, and Dowdies, who haunt the walks at such times-some soli. tarily muzzing and moping on the benches--others scatteredly sauntering they know not whitherall embodied symbols of whatever is

Weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable!" Hamlet.