The two following befel me before I was Mrs Testy.

3.

If you are a single woman, with a reasonable stock of delicacy and pride,-being rallied by a facetious gentleman, in a company where you are not very much known, on the subject of a husband.

4.

If you are afflicted with the malady of blushing, -to read in the complacent smile of a coxcomb who has accosted you, that he thinks you are interested in his attentions.

5.

A carriage which is of little or no use to you, because your coachman generally chooses either to be sick himself, or that his horses should be lame: —yet you are afraid to part with him, as, unluckily, he is a careful driver, and extremely sober, and you a great coward.

6.

A termagant cook, who suffers neither yourself nor your servants to have a moment's peace-yet as she is an excellent cook, and your husband a great epicure, (excuse me, Mr Testy,) you are

obliged to smother your feelings, and seem both blind and deaf to all her tantrums.

7.

Working, half-asleep, at a beautiful piece of fine netting, in the evening-and on returning to it in the morning, discovering that you have totally ruined it.

Ned Tes.

postquam inter retia ventum est, Substitit, infremuitque ferox, et inhorruit armos!"

8.

VIRG.

Snapping your thread quite close to your work, so that you cannot join it without picking out the knot, that is, breaking two or three loops.

9.

Being disappointed by a hair-dresser on a ballnight when you have left your hair totally uncurled, in full dependence upon him: in this emergency, being obliged to accept the offered services of a kind female friend, who makes you an absolute fright; but she being much older than yourself, and of acknowledged judgment, you dare not pull

it all to pieces, and, if you should, you have neither time nor skill to put it to rights again.

10.

At a ball-being asked by two or three puppies why you don't dance?"-and asked no more questions, by these, or any other gentlemen, on the şubject-on your return home, being pestered with examinations and cross examinations, whether you danced-with whom you danced-why you did not dance, &c. &c.; the friend with whom you went, complaining, all the time, of being worried to death with solicitations to dance, the whole evening.

11.

At a long table, after dinner, the eyes of the whole company drawn upon you by a loud obseryation that you are strikingly like Mrs or Miss -particularly when you smile.

12,

The only thimble which you ever could get to fit you exactly, rolling off the table unheeded; then-crushed to death in a moment by the splay foot of a servant.

13.

After having consumed three years on a piece of tambour-work, which has been the wonder of the female world, leaving it, on the very day you have finished it, in the hackney-coach, in which you were exultingly carrying it to the friend whom you intended to surprise with it as a present: afterwards, repeatedly advertising-all in vain.

14.

After dinner, when the ladies retire with you from a party of very pleasant men, having to entertain, as you can, half a score of empty, or formal females; then, after a decent time has elapsed, and your patience and topics are equally exhausted, ringing for the tea, &c. which you sit making in despair, for above two hours; having, three or four times, sent word to the gentlemen that it is ready, and overheard your husband, at the last message, answer" Very well-another bottle of wine." By the time that the tea and coffee are quite cold, they arrive, continuing, as they enter, and for an hour afterwards, their political disputes, occasionally suspended, on the part of the master of the house, by a reasonable complaint, to his lady, at the coldness of the coffee-soon after, the carriages are announced, and the visitors disperse.

15.

On retiring, after dinner, without a female companion, being requested by one of the party to permit a stupid gawky boy of about 14 to accompany you in this distress, you can neither have recourse to books, of which he knows nothing, nor to music, which he declares himself to hate; so that, after having extorted from him how many brothers and sisters he has, what school he goes to, and what are the games now in season, you are condemned to total silence, which is interrupted only by the squeaks of your favourite puppy or kitten, as he amuses himself by pinching and plaguing it during the remainder of the tete-a-tete.

16.

At a ball when you have set your heart on dancing with a particular favourite,-at the moment when you delightedly see him advancing towards you, being briskly accosted by a conceited simpleton at your elbow, whom you cannot endure, but who obtains, (because you know not in what manner to refuse,) "the honour of your hand" for the evening.

Sen. Upon my word, Madam, tolerably unhappy for a lady......