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such a load, the fellow's stomach must have 

 been as strong as Mr. Bull's back, saddled with 

 800 millions of debt, and Peel's income-tax to 

 boot, by way of Mackintosh. I would not 

 have slept in the same sty with this hog for the 

 finest bird of Paradise from the woods of New 

 Guinea. 



As an opposite extreme, I may notice Cornaro 

 of our own times. By never touching butcher's 

 meat, and by extraordinary abstinence, he saved 

 himself, at the age of thirty, from consumption, 

 pronounced mortal by his physician ; and he 

 lived to somewhere above one hundred and 

 five years, ever happy, well, and merry, and 

 was blessed with the full use of all his faculties 

 to the very last. 



ON FRESH AIR. 



u Lucidus ac mundus, sit rite habitabilis aer, 

 Infectus neque sit, nec olens fcetore cloaca?." 



Schol. Sal. 



Let your air be clear and pure. 

 And free of odours from the sewer. 



This super-excellent advice is almost lost on 

 the present generation of this country, for our 



