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two, three ; when, to use George Colman's humorous description of 

 the fat single gentleman, and though heavy to weigh as a score of fat 

 sheep, he was not by any means heavy to sleep. 



He had revolved in his mind the great neglect of grammar in the 

 family, and meant to leave Johnson's Dictionary, as well as Walker's 

 pronouncing one, on the parlour table. The man servant he thought 

 it a charity to teach English to ; and the female attendant was again 

 to be interdicted from approaching the threshold of his door. At 

 length he fell into a dose, which lasted from four until half past se- 

 ven, A. M. when his man awakened him with ^ Sir, here is your 

 boots.' 



^ Daniel,' replied Doctor Qualm, very qualmish indeed, sick at 

 stomach, bilious, feverish and agitated — * Daniel, when you speak of 

 boots, say here are, instead of here isJ' 



* Yes, sir, and shall I warm your night gound V 



This was a dagger to the grammarian : he took it out of his hand, 

 and shook his head. ' Daniel, get me a similar draught to that 

 which I took yesterday, and give me the box of antibilious pills.' 



* Sir, will you have the physic from mistress's pottycarry, or from 

 the drugster, next door to the compository V 



In great agony Doctor Qualm rejoined, ' Daniel, Daniel, you 

 will never speak English ; mind my pronounciation : from the 

 druggist's next door to the repository.' 



^ Good, your reverence.' 



At this moment the cries of votar creases, ingions, and sparrow 

 grass assailed his ears. ' Mercy defend us V cried he, * must every 

 thing which we eat, drink, and wear, be miscalled, to disgust one 

 from taking it ? Can one neither converse with man, woman, or 

 child, without their offending so against grammar as to offend the 

 ear ? I will go back to college ;' and so he did, after paying for board 

 and lodging for a week more than he occupied his apartments. He 

 is arrived at the university, but in such a state of health that his re- 

 covery is despaired of; and rumour says that he proposes leaving 

 his small property to a grammar class for grown people in the 

 Cockney College. 



BY THE AUTHOR OF THE " HERMIT IN LONDON." 

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DOLCOATH MINE. 



The extensive copper mine of Dolcoath, in Cornwall, employs 

 under ground seven hundred and fifty persons, consumes monthly 

 three thousand pounds of gun-powder, and five thousand pounds of 

 candles. It is one thousand four hundred feet deep. J. I.-^Parr. 



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