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are {lowing in from every quarter-this profpeft alone is worth all the
money you have got about you." Accordingly, the ihowman abfiraets
the fame money from his pocket, while John Bull, unconfcious of the
theft, exclaims with furprife, "Mayhap it may, mailer fhowman, but I
canna Zee ony thing like what you mentions,-I zees nothing but a
Tlze Rare:-Slmw.
woide plain, with fome mountains and molehills upon't-as fure as a gun,
it mutt be all behoind one of thofe The Hag of the {how is infcribed,
" Licenfed by authority, Billy Hum's grand exhibition of moving
mechanifm; or, deception of the fenfes."
In a caricature with the initials of I. C., and publifhed on the zoth of
June, 1797, Fox is reprefented as " The Watchman of the State,"
ironically, of courfe, for he is betraying the truft which he had 0(tenta-
tioufly affumed, and abfenting hirnfelf at the moment when his agents
are putting the match to the train they have laid to blow up the conftitu-