A Nurse assigned to Bijou.

and the mop, and that his molaris superior had suffered but an inconsiderable concussion in the moment of the lapsus inopinatus. With several prescriptions for embrocations, pills, and lotions, the muchpitied sufferer was, with solemn caution, delivered into the hands and kind care of Miss Betty-after this peculiar and most important injunction, that she should have him in or on her bed at night, and on her lap by day, till his perfect convalescence was thoroughly achieved, and complete recovery publicly declared by the learned physician. Betty therefore was at her post, and rubbing up and down, with all possible gentleness, the white silken coat of the favourite, listened, par maniére d'acquit, to the interesting relations of the Marquis. But as soon as the last character was concluded, she hastened down stairs, and addressing Mrs. Blump, the housekeeper ;-but ere we give our readers an account of the conversation, let us delineate faithfully

Mrs. Blump,

the several characters which composed the family; for we may from them obtain a certain and most interesting knowledge of another class of people, who, although moving in a lower sphere, have their aberrations, retrogradations, and eclipses, as well as the superior planets; their observations will prove the following saying, that,

"Un sot n'est pas toujours, aussi sot qu'on le pense.'

To begin by the principal character of the committee of inquiry below stairs, we shall inform the public, that Mrs. Blump was the daughter of a respectable hosier in Cheapside, and that, in her youthful days, the poor creature had been desperately in love with a sergeant-major in the London Militia, then quartered in the Old Bailey, with whom she had

* A fool is not always so foolish as he is thought.

and her Lovers.

many a time flirted in Hide-park, and other places of reviews and sham-fights ; but the god of love is fickle, and the crimson-sashed hero soon proved unfaithful to the city damsel. Bundles of letters, boxes of ribbons, gilt gingerbread from Bartholomew fair and other noisy spots of genteel entertainment, were found in her well-papered trunk, by her suspecting father, who, before the laudable institution of the volunteer system, looked upon a soldier as one of the numerous butchers of human kind, and would never have consented to the union.

In vain the sexton of Bow-church, a bachelor of good fame and mild temper, sent his twelfth-cakes and valentines to the disconsolate Sally; a disparity of age was for her a sufficient objection, and she would hear no longer of the longfaced church-assistant. The pew-opener at St. Mildred, the hopeful son of a most devout old widow, whose husband had

She will hear of Love no more.

died worth five hundred pounds in the four-per-cents, bad, no better chance; in vain he presented her with a pair of pastediamond ear-rings, bought bran new at a jeweller's in Sackville-street, and a silver needle-case he had found under one of the green cushions of the pews: his presents were not regarded, and he was éconduit without the least ceremony. The pastry-cook of the shop opposite to her father's had showered candied sweetmeets, sent petits pâtes of second-hand by dozens, and a pound-cake accompanied with verses" of his own composing;" he had no better success: in three words, the Sexton was too sulky, too pale in the face, and too old; the cook too blubberous and fat; the sacred turnkey too demure and lank: she would hear of love no more, and sat herself down quietly for an everlasting maid. However, some unforseen revolutions in her father's affairs having suddenly taken place, she was forced out of the paternal house, and con

Her Cascades through Life.

strained to become a lady's maid at Alderman Fulham's, where she lived in credit and happy, till her master dying of an indigestion, she was dismissed with the rest of the servants.

We shall not follow good Mrs. Blump through all the situations she held within the bills of mortality, to the house of Sir John Feeling, where, by a temporary dropsical sort of an illness, she was obliged to suspend her functions for a few months, and then re-appeared as thin and taper-waisted as ever; nor to the boudoir of Lady Prudell, where she was found, early in the morning, in close conversation with Polhill, my lady's hair-dresser, who had strayed there by mere chance; nor, indeed, down to the kitchen of Miss Roseville, an old spinster, who dismissed her inhumanly for having foolishly gutted a brace of woodcocks, and roasted them without a toast:-we take her as we find her, a creditable housekeeper in the