--Yes.

22. Are you in suffering?--Yes.

23. From the effects of overloading?--Yes. From Gout?--Yes. In one of
your legs?--Yes. Can you move that leg?--No.

24. Does the recollection of what you have had to bear disgust you?--The
table heaved violently.

25. Does conscience torment you?--Yes.

26. On account of the charities which you have served to consume?--Yes.

27. Have you often groaned under your burdens?--Yes.

28. Give the number of tureens of real turtle which you have borne in
your time.--Rapped to the number of twenty thousand, and was continuing,
when the time having arrived for the adjournment of the sitting, the
examination of the table was postponed to another day.

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FACTS FOR COCKNEY NATURALISTS.

Setters are a kind of dog kept exclusively in poultry-yards, for the
purpose of assisting the hens in the work of incubation.

There are curious couples to be met with in the natural as well as in
the social world. Thus Rooks and Pigeons are almost always found in
company; while the Oyster but rarely appears without a Swallow.

The habits of the London rabbit (specimens of which may be obtained at
any poulterer's) are extremely curious, and interesting to the
naturalist. Though wild at times, it is easily domesticated, and will
eat from the hand as well as from the pie-dish. It frequents in the
day-time the tops of water-tubs and the bottoms of areas: while at night
it is generally found on the tiles. When pleased, the animal makes a
soft purring noise; but at night its cries are loud and piercing, and
seriously disturb the neighbourhood which it infests. Its ears partake
rather of the "crop" order than the "lop," and unlike the country
species, it has a long tail. Unlike that species also, it is said, in
lodgings especially, to be omnivorous.

Salmon of large size may be caught pretty freely in the Serpentine
nearly all the year round--with a hook.

The author of "_Nasology_" asserts that human beings are distinguished
chiefly by the nose; and the remark may be extended to the inferior
creation, for there is scarcely a creature but has some prominent
feature for the naturalist to lay hold of. Thus you may always know a
woodcock, like an inn keeper, by the length of his bill, while a
woodpecker more nearly resembles an apothecary, from its keeping bark
continually on tap. In the same way, too, cocks are distinguished by
their combs, and foxes by their br