journeymen and 'prentices at constant work, and my heart was set upon the
riches of this world, which was a wicked work--but now I have got a
glimpse of the new light--I feel the operations of grace--I am of the new
birth--I abhor good works--I detest all working but the working of the
Spirit--avaunt, Satan--O! how I thirst for communication with our sister
Jolly."

"The communication is already open with the Marche," said the first, "but
as for thee, thou caitiff, who hast presumed to disparage my works, I'll
have thee rammed into a mortar with a double charge of powder, and thrown
into the enemy's quarters."

This dialogue operated like a train upon many other inhabitants of the
place; one swore he was within three vibrations of finding the longitude,
when this noise confounded his calculation; a second, in broken English,
complained he vas distorped in the moment of de proshection; a third, in
the character of His Holiness, denounced interdiction, excommunication,
and anathemas; and swore by St. Peter's keys, they should howl ten
thousand years in purgatory, without the benefit of a single mass. A
fourth began to halloo in all the vociferation of a fox-hunter in the
chase; and in an instant the whole house was in an uproar.

The clamour, however, was of a short duration. The different chambers
being opened successively, every individual was effectually silenced by
the sound of one cabalistical word, which was no other than Waistcoat. A
charm which at once cowed the King of P----, dispossessed the fanatic,
dumbfounded the mathematician, dismayed the alchemist, deposed the Pope,
and deprived the squire of all utterance.

Our adventurer was no longer in doubt concerning the place to which he