Nugae literariae: prose and verse

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tis calchos Dona their conversation that there are certain sensons,

hal, to go in to the yard sor this purpose, he is tolli politely thatthey are sent sor. Surprised, even in this age of locomotion, that storehouses and sheds can obsy Such a message, he is informed, that he may hear they are coming. Shrinhing into a Corner Dom SUCh an eaves-dropping invasion, he is relieved by aniamber of childron bouncing into the room. The fond mollier spems to sorget her tenderness, when ringing sor the servant Alisasks where are the brais 8 He solito luisses, and assis in himself, whether those romping ones are not suffcient, When he ascertainsiliat the servant has only gone for pina res and stips. The

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as substantial as bag and baggage could maho it. The childron complain that they can eat nothing, When Alamma acknowledges that she gave them a seW pence in the morning to get vice. Hecan with dissicut ty repress his curiosity that spices should be soche , or his indignation that a parent could suffer children

Enquiry is made Whether the gang came last night,-robbers and impressment-parties rusti into his thoughtsi and whether tho pikeleis have arrived, hicli consoles him that thomeans os delance have not been neglected i Both sear and consolation vanish When these phrases are explained, and by the assurance that the gang is atready jelly, and that those imagi- nary Weapons are to be buttered for tea. A Want of punctu

oxcited no observation but that ii asterWards was asserted, inquite a disserent connection, that the kitchen was fuit os clocks. I Wo medicat men were present,-Os course the Physician Was

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addressed by Alr., and the Surgeon by Doctor. A question is

he is very te thy. The visitor, on being apprised that ho is in his eightieth year, supposes that this is an impression that,being in second childhood, he must be going through another

process os dentition. Dinner heing announced, the predicted piece of beos rises in iis majesty, and that amphibious substratum is not far ori Whicli is nei ther pudding nor meat. This

that to crack of any thing is to boast os it. There cannot beless than Sixteon potantis of tho joint at the bottoni of thotabie, When he hears tho master ex laim, in dolemi accents,upon a single insertion of the knise, that it is not enoush, while the mistress ulters a plaint of iis heing daised, both remartis heing contrary to laci or unknown to language. Fu ther enquiries on his pari inform him that the cause of the panic is that the meat is too rere, Which he suggesis may beobviated by pushing the disti more to the front. The meat issent down to be broiled in collops, a Word he Understands, though more accustomed to hear it jocosely of a deWlap than agrili, et here so veneraled that one day of the Kalendar is devoted and hallowed to it: Whicli, by the association of ideas, reminds the childron os other sacrod delicacies Whicli they calliratasses, in Whicli ho can with dissicut ty discern the fritier os afritier. Tho housewiso laments that sho had not ordered somo

been diseased, he congratulates himself on his escape Doni such recently convalescent porti. The foup, Which had boen ulmost overtooked, filis up the impatient space, ut When the supreme

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authority decides that it Wariis lithing, he, Who only connecis totho lithe what is flexibie and limber, vociferates that it is thin asany liquid can be. Ηe hears, and the evident vexation of thelisad of the table gives a vrai-sembl le to the pol ted allusion,

and he is asked whether he likes rasps. AnsWering in theamrmative, he expecis a roli crisp and grated to be handod tollim, but receives a portion os fruit Whicli, while it bears thisname in combination With a certificate froin the court of Pomona, is froni iis fragile puli' and tender iobe incapable os acting oronduring the fle. But fruit shali be no longer constrainedon him, - a very genus is offered to him under the shape offerta tari, he being len to conjecture, amid colanti ess Varieties, What species of berry this may prove. This is alWays the

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pauses to consider Whether this means Some roquelaure, butSoon ascertains the question to have pertained to his great coat. Going, Without marking any obstacte in his Way, across theroom, he Stumbies,-When, on recoxering himself, he is informod that it Was merely a bet et,-however, he cannot remember thisas a vile blow and bussot of the worid, ' he there re Darshe may have struch some one in the confusion, but is retiovedin sinding that a litile Dot stool is, at orace, the occasion of the Staggering movement and more staggering rem ark. A littis brandy and water is recommended, and as the potent liquor

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NoW, though there are many meteors Whicli do sali froni thoshy, and many labled Whicli do not, yet in no literat senso dotho heavens potir out oil,-though Should grease and snow falltogether, it might prevent the horso's Dot froni balling. This remark, there re, SeemS to add ridicule to accident. Going, hoWeVer, on his Way more circumspectly than besore, and looking weli to his Dei, which gives him a certain curvature os spine, bystanders Warn him of the stoet . He elevates himself, at onco imasining that his bending altitude Was dangerous, When, utiliappily, he runs against a p08t, the Very Stoup intended, nota measure of liquor, but an assair of posts ' Calling upon agentieman, to Whom a friend had admonished him that he mustaddress himself most carefully, for he Was very shori, he has tolook up to tWo yards and an est of stature. Speaking os Sh0ridan's Lady Teagle, ignorant of Such a groWth, and his listerior, ignorant of such a dramatic character, he is replied to that a Waggomload of them is just going past. Seel ing a direction, heis told to go to tho Brim, o at last arrives Where there is somestipping, but nothing like a bris, though there is a sussiciency offloops and of a class whicli is not osten mentioned, in ournationat marine, billyioys. Fin ling that a vehicle of somo kind would be very convenient, he expresses a Wish to look at sonae sim. Ηe is taken Where there are Wheels and harness tofumce, ut the shears of destiny could not mors essectuallysunder his thread of hope, and he feeis that a plainer equipage would bellor fuit his purpose. The morat laesing of the townit is impossibio sor him to estimate very highly, for While many of iis inhabitants boast of their disinterested patriotism, an

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he assures them, noe SurmiSing the convertibieness of the words,

some of his mistakes,-he reads the advertisemenis, and sindsthat in addition to what is known in the solith, that men canprint by steam, they can eVen compose in the noriti by machinery : he theresere resolves to destroy the manipulation of a

arrant coXComb, but a vider. He is asked to pusti forWard the ba8s, which frona circumstances he sees to be the fame withhasso D. He is much scandalised at iis being proposed to hinito sit in the losis, but soon learns that these are no higher thanthe falleries. Νor does he comprehend What cata be the state of those whom he overtiears saying that they have Mosed earlyto- lay, as though the continuance of service had been a restra intand thraldom. Some proverbs have struch him as peculiar, though acquaintsed with ε Wise saWs and modern insta es.'

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periphrasis is very frequent When any illness lihely to be fatal, or any bad debl likely to be ruinous, besalis a person, It will

y0u mind. are perfeci provincialisms, though it is dissiculi tospecify their singularity, and impossibi e to prove them incorrect.-It is good to se is rise, but though the si t may be palpabie, it may be evil and painsul to see. There has been a long