longer; then, at the moment when he has driven off, looking wistfully back, and seeing a fine frothing tankard brought out for you:-coachman inexorable.

10. (T.)

In a coach which is made to carry but four, and is full,-being assailed by the most vehement importunities to take in what they call a lady; leaving you only a choice of Miseries,-granting, or refusing.

11. (S.)

Seeing, at the door of an inn at which the coach stops, a most bewitching creature, with whom you fall, instantly, deeply, and inextricably in lovebut who suddenly trips away, and is succeeded at her post by a Harridan, with a face tattooed with wrinkles-the very Home of ugliness and spite; and who continues as the substitute of your charmer during the remainder of your halt.

12. (S.)

After starting on a very long journey, through a variety of strange counties, discovering that you have left your road-book behind, so that you see every thing in profound ignorance; not knowing whether the town through which you are passing is

Kidderminster or Aberdeen, &c. &c.-the other passengers all fools, or foreigners, with no light to throw on the difficulty.

13. (T.)

Seeing and hearing the roof of a crazy coach groan, crack, and bend over your head, beneath the successive flouncing weights of a dozen ponderous passengers, who continue to "keep this dreadful pother o'er our heads," by shifting their places twenty times during the journey.

14. (S.)

First, failing of a place in a night-coach; then, (your journey urgent, and no other conveyance to be had) the cool comfort of a seat on the roof, without a great coat, amidst a gang of wretches, while a sleety rain is just coming on.

Sen. There, there, Mr Testy !-in pity, let us go no farther-though you, I see, as well as myself, have still a formidable list behind. In our distresses of a more lofty and generous character, where dignity remains unblemished, we have hitherto been able to support ourselves under the severest torments

of memory, which, even in their worst extremities, leave us, still, the glory of failing, as it were, by the hands of the brave-but, really, after having already descended to actual contact with the pollutions of a stagecoach, to be thus poisoning each other with their posthumous effluvia, by a voluntary act of imagination, were to die like hogs, instead of heroes.

Tes. O I'll have done, with all my heart; —besides, as we can believe each other without proof, you know, it is only so much good fortitude thrown away; and so I beg we may bottle up the remainder of our nauseous arguments for our enemies, against the day of trial, whenever it may come. So then!-- upon the whole, friend Sensitive, between one sort of carriage and another, roads, saddlehorses, inns, and all-a rare round of wandering adventures we have gone through!who would sit moping at home, when he could be a traveller?

Sen. Why, as you and I, according to all present appearances, probably shall sit at home for the rest of our lives, or take but short flights in the way of visits among our

neighbours, I have just been scheming a new employment for us in our own way, which will be perfectly compatible with our diminished activity as travellers-I mean, that of noting down the comforts of Society. Man, they tell us, is "a social animal "-let us see, then, how he acquits himself in that character; and what advantages attend the practice of "going into company," as the phrase is, which should hinder us from envying Robinson Crusoe, who was under the fortunate necessity of reducing his visiting-list to a parrot, a blackamoor, and a few goats.

Tes. With all my heart:-I have lately been over-run with cards of invitation without number; and though I had resolved to say No to them all, and keep myself out of the way of being pestered with any body's freaks, or follies, but my own--and Mrs Testy's; I will devote myself, Curtius-like, to this gulf, for the good of our cause. so, if I can contrive to struggle out again, “I wil meet you at Philippi," or whatever place your Ghost shall name-for you, I think, with all your mind about you, will hardly survive

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this series of pitched battles with other minds, which you have before you.

Sen. I am under some alarm for myself, I must confess; and especially as I am not much better provided than yourself with the defence of patience; however, when my shield is worn out, I believe I must imitate your example, and brandish a cudgel.—And so I leave you.

Tes. Aye, to dress for Company, as I must -like two bulls tricked out for sacrifice :-let them take care, though, that we don't break our cords, and take to tossing-that's all.