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 SKETCHES BY A PRACTISING ARCHITECT.— No. IL 



BY A GENTLEMAN OF PLYMOUTH. 



Austria, — " 1 must pocket up these wrongs, 



Because 



Bastard, — " Your breeches best raay carry them." 



King John. 



Yes, — though loss of patience may be sufficiently 

 troublesome, still more so, as John says, (not Planta- 

 genet, but Gilpin,) would be the "loss of pence;" and, 

 therefore, full money must be borne with. I should, 

 perhaps, have concluded my last by saying, that the 

 old gentleman dismissed me with a most gracious 

 promise that he would " drive me out some day in his 

 gig" to see his estate, and to confer upon the spot 

 touching the important alterations he had in contem- 

 plation. 



"And," said a quiet, worldly-experienced friend of 

 mine, " you really must come down from your high 

 imaginative flights, and consent to labour for a time in 

 the trenches of your fortune's edifice, remembering 

 that there is often a close analogy between the progress 

 of moral and of physical things. Thus, to address 

 your professional understanding, I might render some 

 useful directions for the establishment of an architec- 

 tural practice, by a parody on the specification you 

 would offer for the proper erection of a patron's house. 



Digger, &c. 



To dig out and wheel away all loose notions of self- 

 importance down to the solid of your understanding, 

 and to blast (not by profane but by legitimate explo- 

 sion) whatever rocks of prejudice may rise against you 

 in the mind of your would-be employers. Excavate 

 for and form drains to carry off the superfluities of 

 your youthful imagination, and leave ample space for 

 the footings of your existence on the basis of public 

 opinion. 



Mason. 



Foundations of your substructure to be formed of 

 plain sound evidences from the quarry of practical 

 knowledge, firmly bedded in the advice of more expe- 



