" and a Scotch preacher, who had like to have ❝ carried her off. All her time is passed betwixt "fickness and finery. Thus the spends the whole "week in a close chamber, with no other company "but he monkey, her apothecary and cat; and "comes dreffed out to the Park every Sunday, to "show her airs, to get new lovers, to catch a new "cold, and to make new work for the doctor. "There goes Mrs. Roundabout. I mean the fat lady in the luteftring trollopee. Between you

" and I, fhe is but a cutler's wife.

See how The's dreffed, as fine as hands and pins can make her, while her two marriageable daughters, like "bunters in ftuff gowns, are now taking fixpenny"worth of tea at the White-conduit-house. Odius

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pufs, how the waddles along, with her train two

yards, behind her! She puts me in mind of my "Lord Bantam's Indian fheep, which are obliged "to have their monstrous tails trundled along in a go-cart. For all her airs, it goes to her husband's "heart to fee four yards of good luteftring wearing against the ground, like one of his knives on a "grindstone. To speak my mind, coufin Jeffery, "I never liked thofe tails; for, fuppofe a young " fellow fhould be rude, and the lady fhould offer "to ftep back in the fright, instead of retiring, she "treads upon her train, and falls fairly on her back; and then you know, coufin-her clothes may be spoiled.

"Ha! Mifs Mazzard! I knew we should not mifs her in the Park; fhe in the monftrous Pruffan bonnet, Mifs, though fo very fine, was bred

"a milliner, and night have had fome custom if "the had minded her bufinefs; but the girl was "fond of finery, and inftead of dreffing her cuf"tomers, laid out all her goods in adorning her

felf. Every new gown fhe put on impaired her "credit; fhe ftill however went on, improving her appearance, and leffening her little fortune, and " is now, you fee, become a belle and a bankrupt.'

My coufin was proceeding in her remarks, which were interrupted by the approach of the very lady fhe had been fo freely defcribing. "Mifs had perceived her at a diftance, and ap

proached to falute her. I found, by the warmth "of the two ladies' proteftations, that they had "been long intimate esteemed friends and acquain- ̧ ..tance. Both were fo pleafed at this happy ren"counter, that they were refolved not to part for "the day. So we all croffed the Park together,, and I faw them into a hackney-coach at St., James's."

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The Story of Afim the Man-hater. His Journey to a World where there was no Vice. Of Ani mals becoming a Prey to one onother.

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mendous nature; on the bleak bofom of this frightful mountain, fecluded from focięty, and detefting of men, lived Afem the Man-hater. Afem had spent his youth with men, had fhared in their amufements; and had been taught to love his fellow-creatures with the most ardent affection but, from the tenderness of his difpofition, he exhaufted all his fortune in relieving the wants of the diftreffed. The petitioner never fued in vain; the weary traveller never paffed his door: he only defifted from doing good, when he had no longer the power of relieving.

From a fortune thus fpent in benevolence, he expected a grateful return from thofe he had for-. merly relieved, and made his application with confidence of redrefs: the ungrateful world foon grew. weary of his importunity; for pity is but a fhortlived paffion. He foon, therefore, began to view mankind in a very different light from that in which he had before beheld them. He perceived a thousand vices he had never bef before expected to exift wherever he turned, ingratitude, diffimulation, and treachery, contributed to increase his deteftation of them. Refolved therefore to continue no longer in a world which he hated, and which repaid his deteftation with contempt, he retired to this region of fterility, in order to brood over his refentment in folitude, and converfe with the only honeft heart he knew, namely, with his own.

A cave was his only fhelter from the inclemency. of the weather; fruits gathered with difficulty from the

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the mountain's fide, his only food; and his drink was fetched with danger and toil from the headlong In this manner he lived, fequeftered from fociety, paffing the hours in meditation, and fometimes exulting that he was able to live independently of his fellow-creatures.

At the foot of the mountain, an extenfive lake difplayed its glaffy bofom, reflecting on its broad furface the impending horrors of the mountain. To this capacious mirror he would fometimes defcend, and, reclining on its fteep bank, caft an eager look on the smooth expanfe that lay before him. "How beautiful," he often cried, "is Nature! "how lovely, even in her wildeft fcenes! How finely contrasted is the level plain that lies be"neath me, with yon awful pile that hides its tre"mendous head in clouds! But the beauty of thefe "fcenes is no way comparable with their utility: "from hence an hundred rivers are fupplied, which "diftribute health and verdure to the various coun

tries through which they flow. Every part of the univerfe is beautiful, juft, and wife: but man, vile man, is a folecifm in nature, the only monfter in the creation. Tempefts and whirlwinds have their ufe; but vicious, ungrateful man, is a blot in the fair page of univerfal beauty. Why " was I born of that detefted species, whofe vices are almoft a reproach to the wisdom of the di"vine Creator! Were men entirely free from vice, "all would be uniformity, harmony, and order. "A world of moral rectitude, should be the refult " of

"of a perfectly moral agent. Why, why, then, O "Alla! muft I be thus confined in darknefs, doubt, "and defpair!"

Juft as he uttered the word Despair, he was going to plunge into the lake beneath him, at once to fatisfy his doubts, and put a period to his anxiety; when he perceived a most majestic being walking on the furface of the water, and approaching the bank on which he ftood. So unexpected an object at once checked his purpofe: he ftopped, contemplated, and fancied he faw fomething awful and divine in his afpect.

"Son of Adam," cried the genius, "ftop thy "rafh purpofe; the father of the faithful has feen "thy juftice, thy integrity, thy miferies, and hath "fent me to afford and adminifter relief. Give "me thine hand, and follow, without trembling, "wherever I fhall lead. In me behold the genius "of conviction, kept by the great Prophet, to turn "from their errors thofe who go aftray, not from "curiofity, but a rectitude of intention. Follow me, and be wife.”

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Afem immediately defcended upon the lake, and his guide conducted him along the furface of the water, till, coming near the centre of the lake, they both began to fink; the waters clofed over their heads; they defcended several hundred fathoms, till Afem, juft ready to give up his life as inevitably loft, found himself with his celeftial guide in another world, at the bottom of the waters, where human foot had never trod before. His aftonishment was beyond defcription, when he faw