230 THE COUNTRY CLERGYMAN. 



his oysters, swallowed some bottled porter, and 

 filled his glass with brandy and water, he proved 

 his extraordinory faculty of exciting mirth. His 

 sallies of wit, humour, and ridicule were equally 

 unaccountable and unexpected. Like a wild colt, 

 bounding over hill and dale, plains and rivers. 

 Dr. Hunt, yielded to the first impulses of his mind, 

 and rushed from one subject to another, quoting, 

 joking, and parodying, and then pacing up and 

 down the room, spouting Greek and Latin, and 

 passages from his favourite authors. But it is 

 time to dismiss him, as he pursued his journey 

 early the next morning. 



Ridiculus senno cui vita rebellis abhorret 

 Ergo cave Doctor dissonus ease tibi. 



