so _slaughtered_ was alive; and when
recommended to reconsider their verdict, they _mended_ it by pronouncing
the prisoner _not guilty_.

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_The influence of Bacon and Cabbage._

During the administration of Cardinal Richlieu, a set of strolling
players at Paris had such success in low farce, that the other companies
became jealous, and wished to have them suppressed. They complained to
the cardinal. He, fond of every thing dramatic, sent for them to perform
before him in the Palais Royal; and the piece they selected shows that
the Cardinal could sometimes be amused with one of the coarsest
descriptions of life and manners.

Gros Guillaume, or Fat Will, was a principal droll in the exhibition
before the Cardinal. Fat Will is represented as thick as he was long,
and often by means of a dress with hoops stretched across, formed
himself into the figure of a hogshead. In this farce, he was supposed to
be the wife of Turlupin, who, jealous of Garguilla, is going to cut off
her head; infuriated with this idea, he seizes her by the hair, with a
drawn sabre in his hand, while she, upon her knees, conjures him by
every thing that is tender to abate his anger.

She first reminds him of their past loves and courtships--how she rubbed
his back when he had the rheumatism, and his stomach when he had the
cholic, and how particularly charmed she was with him when he wore his
dear little flannel night cap--but all in vain. "Will nothing move
thee?" cries this amiable fair one, in a fit of the last despair--"Then
O! thou barbarian, think of the _bacon_ and _cabbage_ I fried for thy
supper yesterday evening." "Oh, the sorceress!" cried Turlupin--"I can't
resist her--she knows how to take me by my foible; the _bacon_, the
_bacon_, quite _unmans_ me, and the very fat is now rising in my
stomach. Live on then thou charmer--fry cabbage, and be dutiful."

* * * * *

A circumstance has occurred in the neighbourhood of a large town in
Hampshire, which has occasioned much amusing conversation. A young lady,
23 years of age, who will inherit a great property at her father's
death, was recently discovered by him to be in the family way; and on
the enraged parent's demanding who had been her seducer, she, to his
utter astonishment, replied it was her maid Harriet. On Harriet's being
called before him, an explanation took place, when it appeared the young
lady, during a