222 SIR ASTLEY COOPER. 



I could recognize Rory's messmate, Mor- 

 gan, who, with the same goodness of 

 heart and proficiency in the art of heal- 

 ing, the same disregard of worldly and 

 personal accomplishments, had sat himself 

 down, as this man had, in a country- 

 town as an* apothecary. 



I left them together early in the even- 

 ing to attend to my duty; and so im- 

 pressed was I with the good qualities 

 of him who had played the host, and 

 of the evil of his besetting sin for the 

 Doctor had just proposed a North-wester 

 that I went away muttering, " Oh, 

 that man should put an enemy in his 

 mouth to steal away his brains!" 



However, our intimacy did not end 

 here ; and one day the Doctor asked 

 me to ride with him to Gadesbridge, the 

 seat of that great benefactor of his species, 

 Sir Astley Cooper. Upon the road I 

 found by his conversation that this ex- 



