ustration: A VERY GREAT BEAR.]

His present habitation did not, however, suit his change of fortune: he
must have a house in the most fashionable quarter of the town. When this
was obtained, not satisfied with the simple name his fathers had
honestly borne for so many generations, he resolved to dub himself a
nobleman, which he could the more easily do in a place where his
connexions were unknown, so styled himself Count von Bruin forthwith.
The wardrobe of his late learned employer furnished him with a suit of
astonishingly fine clothes, which fitted him to a nicety; so on every
fine morning, dressed therein, with hat cocked upon his crown, his paws
grasping a cane, and placed under his coat-tails, so as to show off all
the glory of his waistcoat, frill, and splendid jewellery, he marched
into the streets. He made so imposing a figure in his new dress, and
assumed such an air of pomposity, that it was no wonder the uninitiated
should have been deceived, and have taken him for a lion of the very
first nobility; nor can we be surprised that a poor cur, almost in a
state of nudity, should, in the most abject manner, supplicate a trifle
from "His Lordship;" that an ignorant cat, in passing, should take off
his cap and make a profound bow; or a kitten, just behind, cross its
paws as though it stood in the presence of a superior. There was one,
however, who penetrated through all his disguise; one who had watched
him with interest when he made his _debut_ in the public square and drew
down such abundant admiration, and who, by some feeling for which she
could not account, had followed his varying fortunes till she saw him
thus rich, superbly dressed, and strutting down the street, as though
Caneville were too small to hold him,--and that one was the Hon. Miss
Greyhound.

REVERSES.

Solitary as were Bruin's habits by nature, he had felt, since his
residence in a town, a change stealing gradually over him, and the
necessity of companionship becoming every day more sensibly experienced.
In his late position, he had had the constant companionship of Tom and
the learned society of his master, which, indeed, he was but little
capable of appreciating, besides the acquaintance of some inferior
animals whom he had managed to fall in with during his idle hours;
though that these must have been of the very lowest class, the reader,
who is aware of the character of that great beast, will readily suppose.
Tom was, however, now