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and preposterous, on the day of celebrating 

 the Rending of the Veil of the Temple, 

 when our Saviour gave up the ghost. The 

 2>eople have large hammers, with which they 

 beat the benches, and have sheets of tin, 

 &c. which they shake, to imitate the noise 

 of thunder as nearly as possible. An Eng- 

 lish colonel, in the republican service, on 

 this occasion thought he could add to the 

 scene, by imitating the English foxhunter's 

 tallyho, which he did with so much strength 

 and clearness of lungs, as quite to exceed 

 any noise of other persons ; and gained by 

 it so much of the curate's good will, who 

 imagined that his religion was in proportion 

 to the vehemence of his utterance, that after 

 the service he came to him, and seizing his 

 hand, thanked him most cordially for his 

 kind addition to the devotion of the night. 



Dec. 35th, Christmas-day. I had hoped, 

 when I first started, to have passed this day 



