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at a bisjh price, merely to gratify a little per- 

 sonal ostentation in an external display of 

 BhooB and fashion, cannot be amiss. More 

 particularly when we so frequently see an ac« 

 cidendal fall, and consequent laceration upon 

 the knees, prove the transient value of what 

 was (a few minutes before) the object of admi- 

 ration and possession with every beholder, 

 now become blown upon, and of no greater 

 estimation than to be unrelentingly torn to 

 pieces, by that most merciful and humane in- 

 vention. 



A MAIL COACH OF PALMERIAN MEMORY. 



Previous to the treatment of disease, it 

 cannot be inapplicable to point out such 

 things as are strictly necessary, and abso- 

 lutely conducive to the preservation of health, 

 though perhaps not at all times properly at- 

 tended to. For instance, no object is more 

 highly entitled to a distinct and separate in- 

 vestigation than the article of 



FEEDING, 



as a particular attention to the qualities and 

 quantities of aliment is particularly necessary 



