9. (S.) While on a short visit to London-the hurry and ferment-the crossing and jostling-the missing and marring which incessantly happen among all your engagements, purposes, and promises, both of business and pleasure-at home and abroad-from morning till midnight;-obstacles equally perverse, unexpected, unaccountable, innumerable, and intolerable, springing up like mushrooms through every step of your progress. Then, (when you are at last leaving London,) on asking yourself the question whether any thing has been neglected, or forgotten, receiving for answer---" Almost every thing!" 10. (S.) While walking with your charmer-meeting a drunken sailor, who, as he staggers by you, ejects his reserve of tobacco against the lady's drapery. Now is not this too much, Sir? Ned Tes. Yes, that's exactly what it is; and therefore you should have cried out, in time, "Ne QUID nigh miss!" 11. (T.) Walking briskly forwards, while you are looking backwards, and so advancing towards another passenger, (a scavenger,) who is doing the same; then meeting, with the shock of two battering rams, which drives your whole stock of breath out of your body, with the groans of a paviour : ❝ ruinam Dant sonitu ingentem, perfractaque.... At length, during a mutual burst of execrations, you each move, for several minutes, from side to side, with the same motion, in vainly endeavouring to pass on. 12. (T.) In going out to dinner, (already too late,) your carriage delayed by a jam of coaches.... Ned Tes. Jam, jamque magis cunctantem! Tes. which choak up the whole street, and allow you at least an hour more than you require, to sharpen your wits for table-talk. "Breast against breast, with ruinous assault, 13. (S.) Dressing at a coffee-house, in a great hurry, to dine out, and on your arrival at your friend's house, suddenly finding that you have nothing in any of your pockets;-then, the flash of horror that runs through you, as you recollect that you have involuntarily confided your watch, pocket-book, loveletters, and uncounted cash and notes, to the care of the public, by leaving them on the table of the coffee-room in which you hastily changed your coat and waistcoat. 14. (S.) On your entrance at a formal dinner-partyin reaching up your hat to a high peg in the hall, bursting your coat, from the arm-hole to the pocket. Tes. Aye-that comes of "appetens nimis ardua," you see. 15. (T.) On leaving the house at which you have been visiting, finding that a rascal has taken your new hat, and left you his old one; which, on the one hand, either cuts to your skull, if you press it down, or barely perches on the tip of your head, if you |