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a, pair of jobs render tliem, as the following ar- 

 rangement and dialogue show : — 



" Poor Mrs. Formerdays ! she was always used to 

 her carriage till lately ; it would be but kind to send 

 ours to fetch her." " Poor Mrs. So-and-so is really 

 ill ; it would be a great treat to her to get an 

 airing. We shall be three hours at the Exhibition 

 to-morrow; we can send her the carriage while we 

 are there; it can then fetch us, and we shall have 

 plenty of time to go into the City. We can then 

 drive round by Hampstead, call on Miss Spinster, 

 get into the Park by five, and have an hour's drive 

 there before we go home to dress ; and as the 

 horses will only then have to take us to Mrs. Feed-us- 

 all's to dinner, and to Lady Lovelight's rout and 

 fetch us home, we can manage to send them to Mrs. 

 So-and-so nicely, and much better than when we 

 want more of them ourselves." — Perhaps, Reader, 

 you ^vill agree with me that for a light day's work 

 this will do. 



" My dear Mrs. Flatterwell," said Mrs. Heartall to 

 her visitor, " who do you think I have invited to 

 meet you at dinner to-morrow ?" 



Mrs. Flatterwell : "Of course I don't know, but 

 some delightful agreeable creature I am sure if she is 

 a friend of yours ; your friends all are so, my poor 

 self excepted." 



Mrs. Heartall : " Oh, you flatterer ! Well, then, I 

 have asked that dear Mrs. Feel-our-frowns that we 

 used to admire so much wlien she drove those beauti- 

 ful grays !" 



Mrs. Flatterwell : " You see I was quite right, 

 but I thought you had not visited her since that 

 dreadful loss of property she met with." 



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