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members out of the House, and the judges out of 

 "Westminster Hall. 



Xay, in the boat at the minute of which I have 

 been speaking, silent and neglected, sat a fellow- 

 passenger, who was a greater adept at removing 

 nuisances than the whole Board of Health put 

 together ; and who had done his work, too, with a 

 cheapness unparalleled; for all his good deeds 

 had not as yet cost the state one penny. True, 

 he lived by his business; so do other inspectors 

 of nuisances.: but nature, instead of paying Maia 

 Squinado, Esquire, some five hundred pounds 

 sterling per annum for his labor, had contrived, 

 with a sublime simplicity of economy which Mr. 

 Hume might have envied and admired afar off, to 

 make him do his work gratis, by giving him the 

 nuisances as his perquisites, and teaching him 

 liow to eat them. Certainly, (without going the 

 length of the Curibs, who uphold Cannibalism be- 

 (^ause, they say, it makes war cheap, and precludes 

 entirely the need of a commissariat,) this cardinal 

 virtue of cheapness ought to make Squinado an 

 interesting object in the eyes of the present 

 generation, especially as he was at that moment 

 ji true sanatory martyr, having, like many of his 

 human fellow-workers, got into a fearful scrape 



