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HORNE TOOKE "There," said the chairman, “you stand, with your hands in your breeches pockets, like a crocodile: ” upon which frightful comparison, the fellow's master, fearing that some severe unishment would follow, jumped up, and implored for merc assuring the worthy magistrate he had such hopes of the prisoner, that if, after a short imprisonment, he were set at liberty, he would take him again into his service. The thread of the chairman's discourse being thus broken, he had occasion to ask his brethren where he had left off, when one of them audibly supplied the broken end, by saying, " You told him that he stood with his hands in his breeches pockets, like a crocodile." The chairman could scarcely believe his ears, and disputed the expression, amidst the giggle of the court, until he recollected that the words " pretending to cry," had been wanting to complete the sentence. B. BT LUnatics. In accompanying a friend, one day, to Westminster Hall, we happened to stroll into the Committee Rooins of the House of Commons, when we observed this very awkward notice, affixed to one of the doors, which excited much mirth among the beholders-一“ Committee of Irish Lunatics." Horne TooKE, Hearing that a young man, possessing great abilities as a public speaker, but uneducated, was most anxious to study, particularly history, and the learned languages, but totally 63