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in his hand, and a pipe in his mouth, which 

 a parcel of boys have built up, and at which 

 an astonished horse is gazing, with " Esto 

 perpetua," at the bottom of the cut. The 

 monument to commemorate some " complete 

 victory/' but which now serves as a rubbing 

 post to a jackass that is seen scratching his 

 rump against one of its corners* An old 

 woman's gingerbread stall besprinkled by a 

 cow on a windy day, while an elderly gentle- 

 man, who receives a few drops of the same 

 shower, puts up his umbrella, thinking it to 

 be rain. The full-fed old Puritan hanging 

 his half-starved cat>, 



" Because she killed the Lord's own mouse 

 Upon the sabbath day." 



It is much to be regretted by every lover 

 of Natural History, and by anglers in par- 

 ticular, that Bewick did not live to finish 

 his long projected work on fishes, which 

 is certainly much wanted. 



Oliver. Our landlord has a neat little 



