Flinch not the glass
That warms like the kiss of your favorite lass.

This complimentary bag-a-telle was well received, and Sir Felix,
shaking the amateur cordially by the hand, observed, that amongst other
attainments before he left London, he meant to acquire the art of making
verses, when he should give the poet a Rowland for his Oliver!

The player having but recently returned to Town, after completing his
engagements with some of the Irish provincial theatres, proceeded to
amuse his auditory, the baronet excepted, with accounts of the manner of
posting in the sister kingdom.--

"Travelling," said he, "in the province of Munster, having got into a
chaise, I was surprised to hear the driver knocking at each side of the
carriage.--"What are you doing?"--"A'n't I nailing your honor?"--"Why do
you nail me up? I don't wish to be nailed up."--"Augh! would your honor
have the doors fly off the hinges?" When we came to the end of the
stage, I begged the man to unfasten the doors.--"Ogh! what would I be
taking out the nails for, to be racking the doors?"--"How shall I get
out then?"--"Can't your honor get out of the window like any other
jontleman?" I then began the operation; but having forced my head
and shoulders out, could get no farther, and called again to the
postillion.--"Augh! did any one ever see any one get out of a chay head
foremost? Can't your honor put out your feet first, like a Christian?"

Here the baronet manifested considerable impatience, and was about
to interrupt the narrator, when the latter requesting permission,
continued:

"Next day four horses were attached to the crazy vehicle;--one,
unfortunately, lost a shoe; and as I refused to go on until the
poor animal was shod, my two postillions commenced, in my hearing, a
colloquy.--"Paddy, where will I get a shoe, and no smith nigh
hand?"--"Why don't you see yon jontleman's horse in the field; can't you
go and unshoe him?"--"True for ye," said Jem, "but that horse's shoe
will never fit him." "Augh! you can but try it," said Paddy. So the
gentleman's horse was actually unshod, and his shoe put upon the posting
hack; and fit or not fit, Paddy went off with it.

~112~~ "Same day, during a violent storm of wind and rain, 1 found that
two of the windows were broken, and two could not, by force or art of
man, be pulled up. I ventured to complain to Paddy of the inconvenience
I suffered from the storm pelting in my face. His consolation was