136 MEMOIRS O* 



the whitenefs and fplendor of their 

 ermine. 



This morning, as I fat upon the Doctor's 

 tea-table, and faw my reflected features in 

 the flop-baim, my long white whifkers, 

 ivory teeth, and topaz eyes, I felt an 

 agreeable prefentiment of my fuit; and 

 certainly the flop-baiin did not flatter me, 

 which fhews the azure flowers upon its 

 borders lefs beauteous than they are. 



You know not, dear Mifs Pufley Po, the 

 value of the addrefs you neglecl. New 

 milk have I, in flowing abundance, and 

 mice pent up in twenty garrets, for your 

 food and amufement. 



Permit me, this afternoon, to lay at 

 your divine feet the head of an enormous 

 Norway Rat, which has even now ftained 

 my paws with its gore. If you will do 

 me the honor to fmg the following fong, 

 which I have taken the liberty to write, 

 as expreffing the fentiments I wifh you to 



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