ving, instead of it, nothing more substantial tha

Tes. Yes, yes-I have gone through it more than once; though, perhaps, I don't take it quite so patiently as you may: for my part,

whenever they send me their silhouettes, or what do they call them, I chuck them out of the window, as soon as they come into the

room;

« Come like Shadows?—so depart !" is my address to the little blackamoors.

30. (T.)

Breaking a phial of assa fœtida in your pocket; -and then mangling, as well as poisoning your fingers, in taking out the bits of broken glass.

31. (S.)

Hiding your eyes with your hand, for a whole evening together, in vain attempts to recover a tune, or a name; said tune, &c. repeatedly flitting before you, but so rapidly as never to be fairly caught.

32. (S.)

Suddenly finding out that your watch has lost two or three hours, while you have been revelling in a fool's paradise of leisure, and unconsciously outstaying your appointments, and disordering all the arrangements of the day, with nothing to have prevented you from adhering to them with perfect

ease.

34. (S.)

In handing a glass of wine, or some brittle article of great beauty and value, to another person,-suddenly quitting your hold of it, under a false idea that he has taken his.-" Guess, ah guess the rest!"

35. (T.)

In pumping;-the dry, wheezing, hiss-and dead, thumping, drop-of the handle, as you keep working it, with vain hopes of water.

36. (S.)

Shewing the colleges, public-buildings, and other remarkables of the University, for the 500th time, to a party who discover no signs of life, during the whole perambulation.

37. (T.)

Buying a pocket-handkerchief on an emergency so pressing, that you have no time to get it hemmed; so that, before the day is half over, it is all in strings.

38. (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 dischargedbut of which immediate payment is demanded in a very valiant letter, enclosing the account;-cash extremely low.

38. (S.)

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

Ned Tes. A dismal transition indeed, from "O dea, certè !"-to

"remove fera monstra, tuæque

Saxificos vultus, quæcunque ea, tolle Medusa!"

39. (S.)

Ovid.

After having bought, and paid for, some expensive article, as thinking you had lost such another, -unexpectedly finding the latter; then endeavouring, in vain, to persuade the iron shopkeeper 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 clammed and matted with pitch or tar, far beyond all the powers of the comb:

Ned Tes.

"Non comptæ mansêre coma-Et rabie fera corda

tument."

41. (T.)

VIRG.

In sea-bathing-after having thrown off your last garment, the endless time during which 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, entrusted to your care a week or a fortnight before, by a person hardly known to you, upon the faith of your solemn 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 wellstored canisters of a London shop: