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On preparing our perfons for dinner at 

 the vieu fifcal's, we had an opportunity of 

 remarking that the old profcffional affociation 

 of furgeon and barber fo long pradifed in 

 England was not grown obfolete among the 

 Dutch. One of our party, in the indolence 

 of the moment, wifliing to avoid the trouble 

 of unharbing his own chin, fent into the town 

 for a perfon to (have him. Quickly appeared 

 the hofpital-furgeon, equipped with a fet of 

 chirurgical inftruments and tonforic apparatus. 

 He bowed in oft refpe&fully, and not ungrace- 

 fully, on entering the room, demanding in 

 Latin, which of us it was, who required to 

 undergo the operation. Struck with his addrefs 

 and the formidable appearance of his cafe of 

 inftruments, we imagined that the Have who 

 had been fent to fetch the barber had com- 

 mitted fome miftake : but, on a iking the ques- 

 tion, our hero of the brufh inftantly replied— 

 " Non, domini I Sum chirurgo-tonfor then, 

 difplaying his razor and bafon, a flu red us 

 that he was more attached to the operative y 

 than to the other branches of his profeffion. 

 Without further hefitation, therefore, two 

 brave officers fubmitted to be taken by the 

 nofe, and underwent the operation^ with much 



