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she had dressed all these four limbs in modest ittle trousers, with frills at the bottom of them!

me of a young lady about fourteen, who, on entering the receiving-room, where she only expected to see a lady who had enquired for her, and finding a young man with her, put her hands before her eyes and ran out of the room again, screaming-' A man, a man, a man!' On another occasion, one of the young ladies in going up stairs to the drawing-room, unfortunately met a boy of fourteen coming down, and her feelings were so violently agitated, that she stopped, panting and sobbing, nor would pass on till the boy had swung himself up on the upper bannisters, to leave the passage free.”—Mrs. i Trollope's Domestic Manners of the Americans.

used; "nay," continued she, "I am not so particular as some people are, for I know those who always say limb of a table, or limb of a piano-forte."

There the conversation dropped; but a few months afterwards I was obliged to acknowledge that the young lady was correct when she asserted that some people were more particular than even she was.

I was requested by a lady to escort her to a seminary for young ladies, and on being ushered into the reception-room, conceive my astonishment at beholding a square piano-forte with four limbs. However, that the ladies who visited their daughters, might feel in its full force the extreme delicacy of the mistress of the establishment,

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and her care to preserve in their utmost purity the ideas of the young ladies under her charge,

"An English lady, who had long kept a fashionable boarding-school in one of the Atlantic cities, told me that one of her earliest cares with every new comer, was to endeavour to substitute real delicacy for that affected

she had dressed all these four limbs in modest ittle trousers, with frills at the bottom of them!

me of a young lady about fourteen, who, on entering the receiving-room, where she only expected to see a lady who had enquired for her, and finding a young man with her, put her hands before her eyes and ran out of the room again, screaming-' A man, a man, a man!" On another occasion, one of the young ladies in going up stairs to the drawing-room, unfortunately met a boy of fourteen coming down, and her feelings were so violently agitated, that she stopped, panting and sobbing, nor would pass on till the boy had swung himself up the upper bannisters, to leave the passage free.”—Mrs. Trollope's Domestic Manners of the Americans.

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In the State of New York they have abolished imprisonment for debt; this abolition, however, only holds good between the citizens of that State, as no one State in the Union can interfere with the rights of another. A stranger, therefore, can imprison a New Yorker, and a New Yorker can imprison a stranger, but the citizens of New York cannot incarcerate one another. Now, although the unprincipled may, and do occasionally, take advantage of this enactment, yet the effects of it are generally good, as character becomes more valuable. Without character, there will be no credit; and without credit, no commercial man can rise in this city. I was once in a store where the widow who kept it complained to me, that a person who owed her

aware that she had no redress, I asked her how she would obtain her money. Her reply was:— "Oh, I shall eventually get my money, for I will shame him out of it by exposure."

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towards debtors. man proves that he cannot pay, he is seldom interfered with, but allowed to recommence business. This is not only Christian-like, but wise. A man thrown into prison is not likely to find the means of paying his debts; but if allowed his liberty and the means of earning a subsistence, he may eventually be more fortunate, and the creditors have a chance of being ultimately paid. This, to my knowledge, has often been the case after the release had been signed, and the creditors had no further legal claim upon the bankrupt. England has not yet made up her mind to the abolition of imprisonment for debt, but from what I have learnt in this city, I have no hesi

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