aste as a gourmand Mr. Dawkins may rely), perhaps
he will find that it is not a bad substitute for the plat which Mr.
Deuceace's awkwardness destroyed.

"It will also, Mr. Deuceace is sure, be no small gratification to
the original donor of the 'pate', when he learns that it has fallen
into the hands of so celebrated a bon vivant as Mr. Dawkins.

"T. S. DAWKINS, Esq., &c. &c. &c."

II.

FROM T. S. DAWKINS, ESQ., TO THE HON. A. P. DEUCEACE.

"MR. THOMAS SMITH DAWKINS presents his grateful compliments to the
Hon. Mr. Deuceace, and accepts with the greatest pleasure Mr.
Deuceace's generous proffer.

"It would be one of the HAPPIEST MOMENTS of Mr. Smith Dawkins's
life, if the Hon. Mr. Deuceace would EXTEND HIS GENEROSITY still
further, and condescend to partake of the repast which his
MUNIFICENT POLITENESS has furnished.

"TEMPLE, Tuesday."

Many and many a time, I say, have I grin'd over these letters, which
I had wrote from the original by Mr. Bruffy's copyin clark. Deuceace's
flam about Prince Tallyram was puffickly successful. I saw young Dawkins
blush with delite as he red the note; he toar up for or five sheets
before he composed the answer to it, which was as you red abuff, and
roat in a hand quite trembling with pleasyer. If you could but have seen
the look of triumph in Deuceace's wicked black eyes, when he read the
noat! I never see a deamin yet, but I can phansy 1, a holding a writhing
soal on his pitchfrock, and smilin like Deuceace. He dressed himself in
his very best clothes, and in he went, after sending me over to say that
he would except with pleasyour Mr. Dawkins's invite.

The pie was cut up, and a most frenly conversation begun betwixt the two
genlmin. Deuceace was quite captivating. He spoke to Mr. Dawkins in
the most respeckful and flatrin manner,--agread in every think he
said,--prazed his taste, his furniter, his coat, his classick nolledge,
and his playin on the floot; you'd have thought, to hear him, that such
a polygon of exlens as Dawkins did not breath,--that such a modist,
sinsear, honrabble genlmn as Deuceace was to be seen nowhere xcept
in Pump Cort. Poor Daw was complitly taken in. My master said he'd
introduce him to the Duke of Doncaster, and heaven knows how many nobs
more, till Dawkins was quite intawsicated with pleasyour. I know as a
fac (and it pretty well shows the young genlmn's carryter), that he went
that very