the blest" to the end of his days, noted to the last for the
redundance of his hair and a certain ferocious coxcombry of aspect.

As for Fighting Attie and Gentleman George, for Scarlet Jem and for Old
Bags, we confess ourselves destitute of any certain information of their
latter ends. We can only add, with regard to Fighting Attie, "Good luck
be with him wherever he goes!" and for mine host of the Jolly Angler,
that, though we have not the physical constitution to quaff "a bumper
of blue ruin," we shall be very happy, over any tolerable wine and
in company with any agreeable convivialist, to bear our part in the
polished chorus of--

"Here's to Gentleman George, God bless him!"

Mrs. Lobkins departed this life like a lamb; and Dummie Dunnaker
obtained a license to carry on the business at Thames Court. He boasted,
to the last, of his acquaintance with the great Captain Lovett, and
of the affability with which that distinguished personage treated him.
Stories he had, too, about Judge Brandon, but no one believed a syllable
of them; and Dummie, indignant at the disbelief, increased, out of
vehemence, the marvel of the stories, so that, at length, what was added
almost swallowed up what was original, and Dummie himself might have
been puzzled to satisfy his own conscience as to what was false and what
was true.

The erudite Peter MacGrawler, returning to Scotland, disappeared by
the road. A person singularly resembling the sage was afterward seen at
Carlisle, where he discharged the useful and praiseworthy duties of Jack
Ketch. But whether or not this respectable functionary was our identical
Simon Pure, our ex-editor of "The Asinaeum," we will not take upon
ourselves to assert.

Lord Mauleverer, finally resolving on a single life, passed the
remainder of his years in indolent tranquillity. When he died, the
newspapers asserted that his Majesty was deeply affected by the loss
of so old and valued a friend. His furniture and wines sold remarkably
high; and a Great Man, his particular intimate, who purchased his books,
startled to find, by pencil marks, that the noble deceased had read some
of them, exclaimed, not altogether without truth,

"Ah! Mauleverer might have been a deuced clever fellow--if he had liked
it!"

The earl was accustomed to show as a curiosity a ring of great value,
which he had received in rather a singular manner. One morning a packet
was brought him which he found to contain a