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when it follows its own course, without either aid or

check. Let it make its own bed : it will do so better than you can. A."—" Guesses at Truth," p. 13, ed. 1871. Verb. sap. But would that all " statesmen " were sapientes.—I am, Sir, &c., JAMES D. EvANs. Catharine Street, Liverpool.