- questioning, would have been a most serviceable
witness; and I must say, I before found him very obliging in his testimony; he went through like a hero when he was not so cross-examined. In the instance that I have just mentioned, I lost my cause; so you see I have had trials and tribulations in this world; nevertheless, I am a man of great property, and can afford to pay for a good commodity, in the literary line, as much as any man." Mr. Lawhunt having favoured his two companions with this biographical sketch, then proceeded to business "Dr. Scribble here," says Mr. Lawhunt, "we all know to be a man of very extraordinary genius and larning. He has been a mentioning to me a plan of translating German books, of plays and histories, and philosophers, and luminies, and other pastimes, which he thinks would make very clever
