LAY Dorross.
The writer of Simplicity, we are pretty well convinced, is of the male gender, and his work bears evident marks of age. It is very clear to be seen that the Old Gentleman is a most methodical person, regular, orderly, imperturbably exact ; we would wager that he is a clerk in the Bank of England. We can see his whole day, nay even his night. He sleeps with his window open ; he rises early ; he never drinks tea for breakfast; death of his wife could not divert him from the purpose to wich he devotes the first five minutes after the morning meal ; he dresses only to the waist until he washes ; this he does in cold water ; he then squirts his eyes and his ears, shaves, puts on the remainder of his clothes. buckles his shoes, takes his hat and cane, and sets off from Islington to the Bank every morning of his life as the clock strikes nine. His motions have hitherto regulated all that line of road which passes St. Luke's, traverses Finsbury Square, and terminates in Lothbury. He eats dry bread at one ; dines at five, abstemiously ; plays a rubber at whist ; and goes to bed at eleven. He never wears flannel waistcoats : he never makes any alteration in his clothes, winter or summer ; he never takes cold : his head is clear, his step firm, and his constitution sound • he will be on the superannuated list of the Bank for the next -fifty years.
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