Welsh Journals

482 Old Price's Remains. machinery requires some trifling modification to render the operation " painless" as well as "instantaneous." It is true that, on rising from the final stooping posture to your full height, with that comfortable stamp which is the ordinary accompaniment of good health and spirits (Geistundleibenswohlsein), you find yourself in panoply, armed cap a pied. But the internal leverage is so ill adjusted to the external force that, whilst a gentle per¬ cussion produces no effect, a smart one drives the tile on a Roman, and over a Grecian nose ; and the removal of it occupies more time than the entire investiture, even where shaving is included. And, should familiarity with the route induce some strong-minded male (there are such, to match our fortitudinarians) to make his way to the neighbouring station, accoutred as he is, the chances of collision, en passant, would countervail the saving of time, in the streets ; and, in ascending the stairs, (Nine Elms Station and my old friend A. F. are uppermost on my mental retina,) some of " those horrid boys" would, pro¬ bably, to crown the whole, take advantage of their posi¬ tion ; and, e loco superiore impetu facto, violently drive the hollow cylinder in the direction B A instead of A B, and condemn to solitary confinement (perhaps for another hour and a half) what little was left of the human face divine, which, in some cases, viz., when the boys took both hands, has only been extricated by a longitudinal incision of the felt,* from rim to crown. * The finest beaver, under these circumstances, is apt to make itself felt. More Business ; and, if possible, more to the point- I am obliged to do things " while I think of them ;" and my Gentle and Fair readers, constant or inconstant,