LYNN SHRIMPS. 27 



much in favour with the Londoners, and 

 commonly called Lynn shrimps ; while 

 the down coach, hung round with empty 

 baskets on a sultry day, would emit an 

 effluvium that was very uninviting to the 

 gentry, who in consequence would rather 

 choose some circuitous route than thus 

 have their olfactory organs offended. 



Still, it sometimes happened that I was 

 accompanied by some of the more youth- 

 ful members of the upper ten thousand. 

 One morning in particular, I remember, 

 three of them, who in the exuberance 

 of their spirits, on leaving the Charter- 

 house, treated me with a portion of 

 them, double-distilled. Their good looks, 

 good tempers, and, with this exception, 

 good manners, would not allow me to 

 be angry, although the liquid accident- 

 ally fell on the skirts of a coat I had 

 donned for the first time that morn- 

 ing; and the circumstance would have 

 fled my memory had it not been the 



