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COLONEL HAl^fGER tO 



Custom IS 

 every thing. 



Difference in 

 the bringing 

 up of Little 

 Miss & Little 

 Master. 



over the land.* You mav^ as well, now-a- 

 days, ask a farmer s daughter to milk the 

 bull, as to milk a cow. Then, to imitate 

 women of fashion, at the balls, they dress 

 half naked ; neck and arms quite bare> and 

 the gown cut down so low in the back, 

 that you absolutely may see their rumps. 

 I remember, many years ago, if a person 

 had walked down St. James's Street, with 

 an umbrella, and strings in his shoes, it 

 would have occasioned much censure ; but 

 now all the priests and footmen wear and 

 carry both. 



Custom is prevalent, and custom estab- 

 lishes every thinir ; for the same nurse who 

 looks after little miss, and little master, 

 tells little miss, provided she shews only 

 one inch of her ancle — *' O fie, miss, for 

 shame, you shew your ancle ; that is very 

 indelicate ;" and, with the next breath, she 



* In all these rom pings and riotings, provided they 

 -do not get hove, or sprung, as cattle do which swell in 

 the bod}^ from eating clover, it is all very well ; that 

 is a very troublesome disorder, and is seldom got rid 

 of under nine months. 



