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away the ſmelling-bottle of the attentive horſeman, and its effects. Not long after their arrival the polite hoſt introduced a perſon, who came, he ſaid, juſt as ſeaſonably as if he had been called in on purpoſe: this was a phyſician, who immediately began to make enquiries concerning the Counteſs’s and the young ladies’ ſtate of health; felt their pulſes, and with a ſignificant countenance ſtarted a number of ſuſpicious ſymptoms. Though the old lady, all things conſidered, found herſelf as well as before the accident, the idea of danger gave her great alarm, for, in ſpite of all her aches, ſhe was as much attached to her crazy carcaſe as one commonly is to an old coat, which is ſo eaſy that you lay it aſide reluctantly, though it be threadbare. By the phyſician’s preſcription ſhe ſwallowed large doſes of febrifuge powders; and the buxom girls muſt perforce follow the example of their anxious mother. By too ready compliance patients make rigid doctors. The blood-