Saxmundham. On arriving there, I found living my father's two brothers,
and my mother's sister. With the latter I took up my quarters, and spent
a most happy fortnight under her roof. To enumerate the alterations
which had been made, both in places and persons, since I left my native
village, or to detail the inquiries I had to answer, and the
congratulations which poured in upon me from all quarters, would be as
uninteresting to the reader as it would be tedious to myself.

I soon returned to Nottingham, and rejoined my regiment. From thence I
was ordered to Wakefield, in Yorkshire, on the recruiting service. Here
nothing but gaiety prevailed; and, as I was the only officer at the
place for a considerable time, I received invitation upon invitation, to
dinners, balls, and suppers; and, to confess the truth, I thought myself
no small personage, which, as I was now in the grenadier company, was
not, in its literal sense, very easily to be controverted.

While I was at this place, I was called upon to perform the office of
second, in an affair of honour between a military officer of rather
diminutive person, and a huge fellow of a civilian. The circumstances
which gave rise to the quarrel were as follow:--

Among the fair attendants of a ball which was given one evening in the
town, was a very pretty girl, on whose charms the tall gentleman had for
some time looked with amorous inclination, and whom, it is to be
presumed, he therefore wished to exclude from the attentions of all but
himself. The young lady herself, however, was not so exclusive in her
notions; and, accordingly, finding her conversation courted, and the
favour of her hand solicited, by a dashing little officer in handsome
uniform, and who, though a warrior of somewhat small dimensions, was
really a dapper, good-looking little fellow, she made no scruple either
of listening to his flattering tongue, or of accepting his hand for the
dance. This preference of the man of steel so irritated his huge rival,
that he determined to pass some insult upon him. He accordingly found a
more compassionate lady as his partner; and, no sooner had the dance
commenced, than he took the first opportunity which presented itself of
treading, with all his weight, on the little officer's toes. In dancing
down a second time, he played him the same trick. Our little hero did
not think it much of a joke to have the full weight of a gentleman full
six-feet-three in height, and stou