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and commanding characters of papa and pe- daSogue, to assume the supple, insinuating department of the lover.

 There are a set of men, whose success in wooing-and it is unfailng-I cannot compre- bend. Grave, emaciated, sallow divines, who never look the person in the face whom they address-who never speak above their treath-who sit on the uttermost edge of their chairs, full yard distant from the dinner-ta- ble. have never known one of these scare crows fail in getting good and rich wife, How it is, Heaven knows! Can it be that the ladies ask them?

 One thing is certain, that myself have ne- yer been able to "pop the question:" Like the inspired writer, among the things beyond the reach of my intellect, is "the way of a man with a maid" By what witchery he should ever be able to induce her, cher free unhoused condition" to "brng into circum- scription and confne," is to me a mystery.- Had it been otherwise, 1 should not have been at this time the lonely inmate of dull house -one who can scarcely claim kindred with any human being-in short,

 AN OLD BACHELOR.