tummined, as I said, to
igsept your kind offer, and beg to withdraw the wuds which I made yous
of when I refyoused your hoxpatable offer. I must, however--"

"I wish you'd withdraw yourself," said Sir John, bursting into a most
igstrorinary rage, "and not interrupt the company with your infernal
talk! Go down, and get us coffee: and, hark ye! hold your impertinent
tongue, or I'll break every bone in your body. You shall have the place
as I said; and while you're in my service, you shall be my servant; but
you don't stay in my service after to-morrow. Go down stairs, sir; and
don't stand staring here!"

. . . . . .

In this abrupt way, my evening ended; it's with a melancholy regret that
I think what came of it. I don't wear plush any more. I am an altered, a
wiser, and, I trust, a better man.

I'm about a novvle (having made great progriss in spelling), in the
style of my friend Bullwig; and preparing for publigation, in the
Doctor's Cyclopedear, "The Lives of Eminent British and Foring
Wosherwomen."

SKIMMINGS FROM "THE DAIRY OF GEORGE IV."

CHARLES YELLOWPLUSH, ESQ, TO OLIVER YORKE, ESQ.*

DEAR WHY,--Takin advantage of the Crismiss holydays, Sir John and me
(who is a member of parlyment) had gone down to our place in Yorkshire
for six wicks, to shoot grows and woodcox, and enjoy old English
hospitalaty. This ugly Canady bisniss unluckaly put an end to our
sports in the country, and brot us up to Buckly Square as fast as four
posterses could gallip. When there, I found your parcel, containing the
two vollumes of a new book; which, as I have been away from the literary
world, and emplied solely in athlatic exorcises, have been laying
neglected in my pantry, among my knife-cloaths, and dekanters, and
blacking-bottles, and bed-room candles, and things.

* These Memoirs were originally published in Fraser's Magazine, and it
may be stated for the benefit of the unlearned in such matters, that
"Oliver Yorke" is the assumed name of the editor of that periodical.

This will, I'm sure, account for my delay in notussing the work. I see
sefral of the papers and magazeens have been befoarhand with me, and
have given their apinions concerning it: specially the Quotly Revew,
which has most mussilessly cut to peases the author of this Dairy of the
Times of George IV.*

* Diary illustrative of the Times of George the Fourth, interspersed
with Original Letters from the late Queen Carolin