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I think it would not be a bad speculation, 

 to plant a great many acres with fig-trees ; 

 for, if the Avomen go on progressively, as 

 they have for many years, the good old 

 custom of our grandmother Eve will be 

 adopted, and nothing but a fig-leaf be 

 worn. 



Try No. 2, pa- Gcntlemcn-sportsmen, I can have no 



teat Shot, in- * ^ 



stead of No. 5 persoual nor self-interested view, in request- 

 ing you, for two .or three days, to slioot 

 with No. 2, patent, — you, who at present 

 shoot with No. 5, and 6 : don't begin to 

 try it till October, when the birds are 

 strong, and rise at a much greater distance. 

 I give you my word, from convincing prac- 

 tice, that two shots of No. 2 will kill a 

 bird at above seventy yards ; when seven 



might put a lady to the blush to examine, at first; but 

 if they would but consider what great liberties the fair 

 sex allow men-midvvives to take with them, without 

 ever blushing, I am of opinion that, with a little time 

 and practice, they might handle any part of a man 

 with the same indifference as they would handle a 

 cucumber or a carrot. 



