debate-striving in vain to overtake the voice of a rapid speaker with your ear.

20. (S.)

In walking the streets-closely following, for above half an hour, a fellow with a heel as long as his foot, over which an inch of leather barely peeps behind; so that the foot seems, at every step, in the act of slipping out of the shoe-till you at length desperately wish it would happen, that the worst may be over.

I mention this Misery to you, Mr Testy, with great hesitation :-as we have been told

that there are some " Joys, which none but madmen know," so there are some "Mise

ries," which none but the Nervous know ;and this I easily conceive, may be one.

21. (S.)

Reading over the account of "Ways and Means," when you have neither ways nor means of meeting the new taxes that pounce upon all your favourite articles of consumption;-or, in other words, throwing away one sixpence for a newspaper, in order to see how many hundreds more you are called upon to throw after it.

22. (S.)

On instituting a severe scrutiny into the state of your hair, from the sudden and alarming detection of a bald spot-finding yourself at least ten years nearer to a wig, than you had at all apprehended.

23. (S.)

When you are half asleep-receiving, and wading through, a long, dull, obscure, illegible, ungrammatical, mis-spelt, ill-pointed, letter of business-requiring a copious answer by the bearer.

24. (S.)

Sitting in a chair on which you do not discover that Honey has been liberally spilt, till, on

rising to make your bow, you carry away the

Tes. There you are out, Ned; it is vitiato. Ned Tes. The D-1 it is!-I am very sorry for it I should otherwise have considered it as the luckiest of all my hits.

Tes. Why, if you must have an authority for this Groan, I will give you " dulcia mella premes"-Nay, to make Sensitive quite easy, here's another for him :

Those certain moments of existence, in which, without any assignable cause, Ennui so powerfully predominates over your whole system, mental and bodily, that you would joyfully submit to the catand-nine-tails, by way of a flapper to your dormant excitability.

26. (S.)

During courtship-flattering yourself that you are a year or two younger than some" goodnatured friend or other" proves you to be.

27. (T.)

After bathing-the dull, rumbling, rushing, sound, which continues all day long in your ears, and which all your tweaking, nuzzling, and rummaging at them, serves only to increase.

Sen. Very sad, Sir;-you might here cry with poor Clarence,

"What dreadful noise of waters in

my ears!"

but then his Misery was but a dream ;-would that ours were not realities!

28. (S.)

After having, with great difficulty, persuaded a friend to sit for his, or her, picture, and then feasting yourself with the thoughts of possessing a fac simile, which the great fame of the artist encouraraged you to expect,—receiving, after long delays, what proves to be the face of-any one but your friend!

Tes. Poor Sensitive!-That must have been quite a scene!

“animam picturâ pascit inani,

Multa gemens."

VIRG.

Sen. Yes-but there is another stroke of desperation, the same in kind, but far worse in degree:-I hope it will be new to you, though it occurred this very morning to my self:

29. (S.)

After having been promised what you expect will be the painted portrait of a friend-recei