TEIE MEWSTONE. 



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♦not likely to have a tobacconist's shop in the imme- 

 diate neighbourhood. Poor Sam ! it's a pity that 

 he ever should have recourse to sea-sand wherewith 

 to tickle his olfacteries in his hour of need. 



Sam was married last April, his age may average 

 about two score, and his wife's ditto, he " never takes 

 no physic whatsomdever, and never meams to take 

 none," so that he has a chance of existing a httle 

 longer than such dwellers in his vicinity as have the 

 advantage of Morrison and Moate's mixture of gam- 

 boge and colocynth. 



SAMUEL WAKEIIAM S HOUSE, ON THE MEWSTONE. 



Sam does not care one rush for any other part of 



the World except the Mewstone ; like the Samoide 



in his cave, the Esquimaux in his snow house, the 



Australian in his hollow^ tree, or King William the 



fourth in W^indsor palace, Sam believes that his own 



spot of land and his own dwelling place are unex- 



ceptionably the most desirable on the face of the 



earth ; some wise fellow may exclaim, 



^* O ! Solitude, where are the charms that Wakeham can find in 



[thy face :" 



