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IN MORALS.-41four big brother the Atlas we prophesied, that the horror of education would at no distant day lead a certain class of persons to advertise for footmen who cannot read the classics or speak Italian. The following advertisement shows that our idea was not a eight of imagination beyond the reach of practical absurdity : con- ditions considered, it is a tolerably just parallel. "A Lad from the Country wanted : not highly educated, aged fifteen or i able parents.—Letters not attended to." , spsixeatekeinng. to : kmaunsetnabefaalclawtivere,ashagrot 0, dantedmopfelrig;hwt weight aietigaht tta; bmleusat nudndoefrsrtaanapdetchte. place ; useful in a garden and in general service ; must do as he is bid; bear care of horse and chaise ; have a good twelvemonths' character from his last 'It is difficult to imagine how such a phoenix as is here imagined can be without followers : such uncommon merit would needs have its attraction. The collocation " wait at table, and of respectable parents," is exquisitely happy. As for the note, " letters not attended to," that is superfluous, for the capacity for letter-writing should be an implied disqualification. No one believes in perfection, but every body asks or offers it in newspaper advertisements. A lady wrote to her brother, begging him to look out for,a, governess for her daughters ; and instructing him that she must be pleasing in person, gentle in temper, finished in man- ners, perfectly mistress of French and Italian, an accomplished mu- sician, and capable of teaching drawing. The gentleman answered, "My dear Sister —I have long been looking out for the person you de- scribe, and when i find her, I design making her not your governess, but ray wife."
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