together; but I remember, Mr. Shandy the elder, who accounted for nothing like any body else, in speaking one evening of these matters, averred, that children, like other animals, might be increased almoft to any fize, provided they came right into the world; but the mifery was, the citizens of Paris were fo coop'd up, that they had not actually room enough to get them-I did not call it getting any thing, faid he-'tis getting nothing-Nay, continued he, rifing in his argument, 'tis getting worse than nothing, when all you have got, after twenty or five and twenty years of the tenderest care and moft nutritrious aliment beftowed up

on

on it, fhall not at least be as high as my leg. Now, Mr. Shandy being very short, there could be nothing more faid of it.

As this is not a work of reafoning, I leave the folution as I found it, and content myself with the truth only of the remark, which is verified in every lane and by-lane of Paris. I was walking down that which leads from the Caroufal to the Palais Royal, and obferving a little boy in fome distress at the fide of the gutter, which ran down the middle of it, I took hold of his hand, and help'd him over. Upon turning up his face to look at him after, I perceived he was about

forty

forty-Never mind, faid I; fome good body will do as much for me, when I am ninety.

I feel fome little principles within me, which incline me to be merciful towards this poor blighted part of my fpecies, who have neither fize or ftrength to get on in the world.-I cannot bear to fee one of them trod upon; and had fcarce got feated befide my old French officer, ere the difguft was exercised, by feeing the very thing happen under the box we fat in.

At the end of the orchestra, and betwixt that and the firft fide-box, there

there is a small efplanade left, where, when the houfe is full, numbers of all ranks take fanctuary. Though you ftand, as in the parterre, you pay the fame price as in the orchestra. A poor defenceless being of this order had got thrust fomehow or other into this luckless place-the night was hot, and he was furrounded by beings two feet and a half higher than himself. The dwarf fuffered inexpreffibly on all fides; but the thing which incommoded him moft, was, a tall, corpulent German, near seven feet high, who ftood directly betwixt him and all poffibility of his feeing either the ftage or the actors. The poor dwarf did all he could to get a

peep at what was going forwards, by seeking for fome little opening betwixt the German's arm and his body, trying first one fide, then the other but the German stood square in the most unaccommodating posture that can be imagined-the dwarf might as well have been placed at the bottom of the deepest draw-well in Paris; fo he civilly reached up his hand to the German's fleeve, and told him his diftrefs-The German turn'd his head back, look'd down upon him as Goliah did upon David-and unfeelingly refumed his posture.

I was just then taking a pinch of fnuff out of my monk's little hornbox-And how would thy meek and

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