and irregular,
Form'd harbours, safe at once and perilous,--
Safe for defence, but perilous to enter.
A sea lake shone amidst the fossil isle,
Reflecting in a ring its cliffs and caverns,
With heaven itself seen like a lake below."

_Montgomery's Pelican Island._

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THE GATHERER.

"I am but a _Gatherer_ and disposer of other men's stuff."--_Wotton_.

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TAKING PHYSIC.

David Hartley eat two hundred pounds weight of soap to cure the stone,
but died of that disease. Bishop Berkeley drank a butt of tar-water.
Meyer, in a course of chemical neutralization, swallowed 1,200 pounds of
crabs' eyes. In the German Ephemerides, the case of a person is
described who had taken so much elixir of vitriol, that his keys were
rusted in his pocket by the transudation of the acid through the pores
of his skin; another patient is said to have taken argentum nitratum in
solution till he became blue. _Throw physic to the dogs!_

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MARRIAGE.

There are two cardinal points in a man's life, which determine his
happiness or his misery; these are his birth and his marriage. It is in
vain for a man to be born fortunate if he be unfortunate in his
marriage.

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PERVERSENESS OF FOREIGNERS.

"What a rum language they talk in this place!" said an English sailor
the other day to his companion, who arrived a few days later than the
speaker himself had done at Rochefort--"Why, they call a cabbage a
_shoe_--(choux!)" "They are a d--d set!" was the reply, "why can't
they call it a cabbage!"

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In a newspaper, dated January 31, 1746, we find the following theatrical
announcement:--

"We are certainly informed that on Monday next, at the Theatre Royal,
Drury-Lane, will be performed _The Lying Valet_, and that Mr.
Steevens, at the particular desire of some persons of quality, is to act
the part of _Justice Guttle_; in which character he will devour
_twelve pounds of plumb cake at three mouthfuls_."

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DOUBLE DEALING.

Commercial morality is an unaccountable kind of thing. In the report of
a recent trial for the robbery of a watch, it is stated that

"Mr. Beauchamp identified the watch. He was sure that it was not sold;
he knew that circumstance from his books;