CHA P. III. Land animals returning the compliment, A City City woollen-draper, who was taking his half-crown's worth of rounds in that horfe- mill, with a long fword on, fays to a mercer, his companion, who was likewife a fwordsman for the night, "Did you "ever, George, fee fuch a pattern as "that there piece of ftuff? (meaning our honeft captain.) "Faith," fays the mercer, "I have been looking this "three rounds, and can't make out "whether his fabric is Turkey cot"ton, or English linfey-woolfey." Mr. Threetines the cutler, told his lady, who was hanging on his arm, "That "That he never faw fuch a queer "blade before." Mr. Difcount, the banker, faid, "He never fet his eyes "on fuch an unnegotiable piece of "paper." Mr. Quarto, the bookfeller, faid, "He never faw a man fo "oddly bound up in his life." Mr. Single-eye, the great tellefcope-maker, said, "He never espied such a fpectacle fince he first peeped "through a tube." My Lady Mushroom declared, "She never beheld "fuch a harrabel looking fellar." Mr. Pepper-box, the filver-fmith, said, "Let him be what countryman he "would, he plainly perceived, he "wanted a great deal of refining." The feller of ftoves and fenders, "thought him very badly polished.” The watchmaker faid, " He never "faw such a strange movement." Mr. Kneeband Kneeband, the great taylor, who, like the reft, was a fwordfman for that night, said, "He never saw a piece of "work, cut fo much out of the fa"fhion." Mr. Beaver, the hatter, faid, "Not only his hat, but his "whole body was ftrangely cocked.” Mifs Blondlace, the milliner, faid, "She was fure his face had never "been clear-ftarched." Mr. Trippleftamp, the attorney, declared, "He "never faw a piece of parchment fo "vilely indented." And Pinchbeck faid, "He could not guess what me"tal he was made of.” To wrap all thefe pithy obfervations neatly up, I kept wishing Mr. Foote might come by, and fee our tar; because I was certain one short fentence of his, would contain more than the whole collection of these manufacturing wits put together; together, and have turned my story into an epigram, by ending it with a point; but, unluckily, he was not there that evening: I muft, therefore, beg the favour of every reader to please himself, by fubftituting fomething of his own, in lieu of what he thinks Mr. Foote would have faid. If a reader can't please himself with his own thoughts, I am fure it would be out of my power to do it; but, per contra, if he can please himself, he will be much better satisfied, than if even a genuine bon mot from that unrivalled genius had closed my narration. VOL. IV. D CHAP. I CHA P. IV. Different kinds of motions. STILL continued, to my great fatisfaction, to remain in the hands of Mr. Derbyshire, who carried me, and a friend, down to his feat in Surry; the afternoon, it being Saturday, they spent in fishing. And on Sunday morning they attended divine fervice. Mr. Derbyshire never failed doing that, not only from the dictates of his own good fenfe, but to set a proper example to his tenants, labourers, and domeftic fervants. They heard an excellent fermon, from a grave, reverend, plain-looking clergyman: but Mr. Derbyshire's friend could |