THE BRIDEGRooMs PROBATION.
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A young Englishman, from gaming, love
affairs, and other such gold scattering enjoy
ments, had SO nearly reached the dregs Of
his great -grand-father's hereditary portion
that he could calculate the departing hour Of
his last guinea. AS one evening he was re-
turning home from one of those haunts of
dissipation which he habitually frequented,
feeble in body, as in mind and for the first
time in his life casting firm look upon the
ruin of his fortune, he could not we'll deter
mine, whether he should end bis troubles by
drawing trigger, or throwing himself into
the Thames.


While he thus waved between fire and wa
ter, the very profound idea occurred to him
not to lay violent hands on himself, but to
allow himself to be conducted out of the lab
yrinth of Poverty by the fair hand OF some
wealthy bride. With this consoling tho't
he went to bed, and already in his nocturnal
visions the rapid racers few, the fair girls
frisked all about him, both of which he was
happy in thinking he might maintain in tu-
sure upon the ,dowry of his wife.


On the following morning he reflected a,
new his plan, and found it unexceptionable
n every point, excepting the very slight cir.