sufferings, and expected
the healing remedy perhaps, without contemplating any personal
sacrifices of their indulgences, or alteration of favourite habits,
he often cut short their narratives by putting his fore-finger on the
pit of their stomachs, and observing, "It's all _there_, sir;" and the
never-failing pill and draught, with rigid restrictions as to diet,
and injunctions as to exercise, invariably followed, although perhaps
rarely attended to; for persons in general would rather submit to even
nauseous medicine than abandon sensual gratifications, or diminish
their worldly pleasures and pursuits.--_Metropolitan._

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The Gatherer.

A snapper up of unconsidered trifles.

SHAKSPEARE.

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REMARKABLE JURY AT HUNTINGDON.

In the 16th century, when figure and fortune, or quality and wealth,
were more considered than wisdom or probity, or justice and equity, in
our courts of law, Judge Doddridge took upon him to reprimand the
sheriff of the county of Huntingdon, for impanneling a grand jury of
freeholders who were not, in his opinion, men of figure and fortune.
The sheriff, who was a man of sense, and of wit and humour, resolved
at the next assizes to try how far sounds would work upon that judge,
and gain his approbation. He presented him with the following pannel,
which had the desired effect, for when the names were read over
emphatically, the judge thought that he had now indeed a jury of
figure and fortune:--

_A true copy of a Jury taken before Judge Doddridge, at the Assizes
holden at Huntingdon, July,_ 1619.

Maximilian King--of Torland.
Henry Prince--of Godmanchester.
George Duke--of Somersham.
William Marquess--of Stukely.
Edmund Earl--of Hartford.
Richard Baron--of Bythorpe.
Stephen Pope--of Newton.
Stephen Cardinal--of Kimbolton.
Humphry Bishop--of Bugden.
Robert Lord--of Worsley.
Robert Knight--of Winwinck.
William Abbot--of Stukely.
Robert Baron--of St. Neot's.
William Dean--of Old Weston.
John Archdeacon--of Paxton.
Peter Squire--of Easton.
Edward Friar--of Ellerton.
Henry Monk--of Stukely.
George Gentleman--of Spaldock.
George Priest--of Graffham.
Richard Deacon--of Catsworth.
Thomas Yeoman--of Barham.

G.K.

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