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ing his teeth after his savoury meal, the purveyormay be paying the expenses in a law-suit, shotin a poaching broil, or taking a trip to BotanyBay.

" Have you got an attorney aboard ?" cried oldHawser Trunnion, as he approached an inn; norcould he be induced to enter, till it was ascer-tained the coast was clear. Such was the pointedsatire that Smollet levelled at the birdlime qualityof law. The spirit of the law is indeed foundedin equity, but it is the business of the litigatorsto quench that spirit;—hence arises all kind oflegal distress, both in town and in country ; hence,

all that load of wretchedness and misery, that

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God bless my soul! what have I been writingabout?—Why surely it is not actionable?—I don'tknow that; to be sure of it, it will be necessaryfor me to examine carefully; let me see—units,tens, hundreds, thousands, tens of—I'll count nomore. " Let me not think on't, that way madnesslies;" the vision of such mighty volumes would ap-pal the stoutest heart.

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