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[To ?RR EDITOR or THZ SPECTATOR."]

once heard an Irish lady, an author of distinction, asked if she had ever been to Devonshire. " No, I have never been to Devonshire, except to Lyme Regis, and that's in, Dorsetshire," she replied, quietly. Another lady, not Irish, was explaining that a certain event was to take place on a certain day. "It's to-morrow they were coming," she said. Then, with a sudden gleam of remembrance, she cried,—" I&

to-day to-morrow ? "—I am, Sir, &c., H. HERMON.