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of those young gentlemen who get hospital patients 

 under their hands, when in a hurry to get away to 

 put on a proper tie and add the proper quantum of 

 Rowland's Macassar for a Regent- Street strut. 



Some of my friends, from their transactions with 

 some dealers, are very much in the situation of Bruin : 

 they have been hit hard, and the place is still tender : 

 they are still rubbing their heads, and are driven 

 half mad, when I only laugh at their bruises. Give 

 Bruin the stick that hurt him, you would see what 

 a mauling he would give it ; and thus some of my 

 good friends, having been hit by horse-dealers, 

 want me to give them a mauling also. This (as far 

 as my abilities would permit) I would be as willing 

 as any man alive to do when and where I thought 

 they deserved it; but it is not enough for me that 

 my friend's head is tender, when perhaps the hit 

 arose from his own folly. In this case, I can only 

 recommend him to do as Bruin does, tenderly and 

 patiently to rub on till he cures it; but I would 

 advise him to do what the other will do without 

 advice, namely, not voluntarily to put himself in the 

 way of getting hit again. I am compelled to say this 

 has not been the conduct of some of my friends ; and 

 the consequence has been, they got a fresh shinner on 

 the old grievance. When this is the case, they have 

 doubly deserved it, and must rub and growl on: it 

 will perhaps keep them out of further mischief. 



I can bring forward a very beautiful illustration 

 of the folly of a want of caution in the first place, 

 and the still greater folly of expecting to come off 

 scathless in returning to the origin of our first injury. 

 When I was a boy, and about as mischievous as 



