It is within my remembrance when former mountebanks distributed packets instead of blanks, containing nostrums against toothache, corns, bunions, warts, witchcraft and the ague. Doctor Bolus strutted and fretted his hour upon the stage, and gave as much wit for sixpence as kept the village alehouse in a roar for many weeks. But, I suppose, the mountebank profession, like every other, feels the changes of the times, and retrenchment cries,—
“Ubi vos requiram, cum dies advenerit?”
*, *, P.
September 29, 1826.
Please to make the following correction, [page 1270]; for “he shaking,” read “[the shaking].”
NATURALISTS’ CALENDAR.
Mean Temperature 52·85.
[361] Fuller.