Dialogue.

    Glutton.—­My belly I do deify.

    Echo.—­Fie.

    Glutton.—­Who curbs his appetite’s a fool.

    Echo.—­Ah! fool!

    Glutton.—­I do not like this abstinence.

    Echo.—­Hence!

    Glutton.—­My joy’s a feast, my wish is wine.

    Echo.—­Swine.

    Glutton.—­We epicures are happy truly.

    Echo.—­You lie.

    Glutton.—­May I not, Echo, eat my fill.

    Echo.—­Ill.

    Glutton.—­Will it hurt me if I drink too much?

    Echo.—­Much.

    Glutton.—­Thou mock’st me nymph, I’ll not believe it.

    Echo.—­Believe it.

    Glutton.—­Dost thou condemn then what I do?

    Echo.—­I do.

    Glutton.—­Is it that which brings infirmities?

    Echo.—­It is!

    Glutton.—­Then sweetest temperance I’ll love thee.

    Echo.  I love thee..

               {If all be true which thou
    Glutton. { dost tell,
               {To gluttony I bid farewell.

    Echo.—­Farewell.

    W.A.

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EPITAPH ON A GAMESTER.

  Here lies a gamester, poor but willing,
  Who left the room without a shilling. 
  Losing each stake, till he had thrown
    His last, and lost the game to Death;
  If Paradise his soul has won,
    ’Twas a rare stroke of luck i’faith!

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Suicide is very common among the New Zealanders:  thus, a woman who has been beaten by her husband will perhaps hang herself immediately.

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LIMBIRD’S EDITION OF THE

Following Novels is already Published: 

s. d. 
Mackenzie’s Man of Feeling             0    6
Paul and Virginia                      0    6
The Castle of Otranto                  0    6
Almoran and Hamet                      0    6
Elizabeth, or the Exiles of Siberia    0    6
The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne     0    6
Rasselas                               0    8
The Old English Baron                  0    8
Nature and Art                         0    8
Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield         0   10
Sicilian Romance                       1    0
The Man of the World                   1    0
A Simple Story                         1    4
Joseph Andrews                         1    6
Humphry Clinker                        1    8
The Romance of the Forest              1    8
The Italian                            2    0
Zeluco, by Dr. Moore                   2    6