should be of the
length of one of the state rooms at Wimpole. So many of them were saved,
that at length she had enough to hang the state-room, and make curtains
for the bed. Lord Hardwicke used to say, "There was not such a _purser_
in the navy."

CXXXII.--A FOREIGN ACCENT.

WHEN Maurice Margarot was tried at Edinburgh for sedition, the Lord
Justice asked him, "Hae you ony counsel, mon?"--"No."--"Do you want to
hae ony appointed?"--"I only want an interpreter to make me _understand_
what your lordships say."

CXXXIII--EASY AS LYING.

ERSKINE, examining a bumptious fellow, asked him, if he were not a
rider? "I'm a traveller, sir," replied the witness, with an air of
offended importance. "Indeed, sir. And, pray, are you addicted to the
_failing_ usually attributed to travellers?"

CXXXIV.--NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS.

A PRISONER in The Fleet sent to his creditor to let him know that he had
a proposal to make, which he believed would be for their mutual benefit.
Accordingly, the creditor calling on him to hear it: "I have been
thinking," said he, "that it is a very idle thing for me to lie here,
and put you to the expense of seven groats a week. My being so
chargeable to you has given me great uneasiness, and who knows what it
may cost you in the end! Therefore, what I propose is this: You shall
let me out of prison, and, instead of _seven_ groats, you shall allow me
only _eighteenpence_ a week, and the other _tenpence_ shall go towards
the discharging of the debt."

CXXXV.--EPIGRAM.

(On the column to the Duke of York's memory.)

IN former times the illustrious dead were burned,
Their hearts preserved in sepulchre inurned;
This column, then, commemorates the part
Which custom makes us single out--the heart;
You ask, "How by a column this is done?"
I answer, "_'Tis a hollow thing of stone_."

CXXXVI.--FLATTERY TURNED TO ADVANTAGE.

A DEPENDANT was praising his patron for many virtues which he did not
possess. "I will do all in my power to prevent you _lying_," answered
he.

CXXXVII.--THE INTRUDER REBUKED.

JERROLD and some friends were dining in a private room at a tavern.
After dinner the landlord informed the company that the house was partly
under repair, and requested that a stranger might be allowed to take a
chop at a separate table in the apartment. The company assented, and the
stranger, a person of commonplace ap