82 THE WILLEY SQUIEE. 



yene before the return of tlie eyening assignations. 

 "What wonder, then, if such busy, trifling, efieminate 

 mortals are heard to swear they haye no notion of 

 yenturing their bodies out-of-doors in the cold air in 

 the morning ? I haye laughed heartily to see such 

 delicate smock-faced animals judiciously interrupting 

 their pinches of snufi" with dull jokes upon fox- 

 hunters ; and foppishly declaiming against an art 

 they know no more of than they do of Greek. It 

 cannot be expected they should speak well of a toil 

 they dare not undertake ; or that the fine things 

 should be fit to work without doors, which are of the 

 taylor's creation.*' 



