John. I thank you too, Sir, for us all.

Fanny. Sir, since you have been so indulgent in this matter, give me leave to request you to be satisfied with my paying my duty to the ladies, without going to live in a way so different from what I have been used to, and must live in hereafter. I think I can be no where better than with my friends and future parents here.

Landl. Your request, Fanny, has so much propriety and good sense in it, that I cannot refuse it. However, you must suffer us to improve our acquaintance. I assure you it will give me particular pleasure.

Fanny. Sir, you will always command my most grateful obedience.

Landl. Well-let Thomas bring you to my house this afternoon, and I will introduce you to your relations, and we

will talk over matters. Farewell, my dear! Nay, I must have a kiss. Fanny. I will wait on you, Sir.

[Exit Landlord.

Betty. My dear Fanny-daughter I may now call you-you cannot think how much I feel obliged to you.

Thomas. But who is so much obliged as I am?

Fanny. Do you not all deserve every thing from me?

John. Well, who could have thought when I went to help up the waggon, that it would have brought so much. good luck to us?

Betty. A good deed is never lost, they say.

Fanny. It shall be the business of my life to prove that this has not been lost.

TIT FOR TAT.

A TALE.

A LAW there is of ancient fame,
By Nature's self in every land implanted,
Lex Talionis is its Latin name;

But if an English term be wanted,

Give your next neighbour but a pat, He'll give back as good, and tell you-tit for tat.

This tit for tat, it seems, not Men alone,
But Elephants, for legal justice own;
In proof of this a story I shall tell ye,
Imported from the famous town of Delhi.

A mighty Elephant that swell'd the state
Of Aurengzebe the Great,

One day was taken by his driver

To drink and cool him in the river; The driver on his neck was seated, And as he rode along,

By some acquaintance in the throng, With a ripe cocoa-nut was treated.

A cocoa-nut's a pretty fruit enough,

But guarded by a shell, both hard and tough,
The fellow tried, and tried, and tried,

Working and sweating,

Pishing and fretting,

To find out its inside,

And pick the kernel for his eating.

At length, quite out of patience grown,
"Who'll reach me up (he cries) a stone
To break this plaguy shell!

But stay, I've here a solid bone,
May do perhaps as well."

So half in earnest, half in jest,
He bang'd it on the forehead of his beast.

An elephant, they say, has human feeling,
And full as well as we he knows

The diff'rence between words and blows,
Between horse play and civil dealing.

Use him but well, he'll do his best,

And serve you faithfully and truly :

But insults unprovok'd he can't digest,

He studies o'er them, and repays them duly.

"To make my head an anvil (thought the crea

ture)

Was never, certainly, the will of Nature;

So, master mine! you may repent :"

Then, shaking his broad ears, away he went :
The driver took him to the water,

And thought no more about the matter;
But Elephant within his mem'ry hid it;
He felt the wrong,-the other only did it.

A week or two elaps'd, one market day
Again the beast and driver took their way;
Thro' rows of shops and booths they pass'd,
With eatables and trinkets stor'd,

Till to a gard'ner's stall they came at last,
Where cocoa-nuts lay pil'd upon the board.
"Ha!" thought the Elephant, "tis now my turn
To show this method of nut-breaking ;
My friend above will like to learn,
Though at the cost of a head-aching."

Then in his curling trunk he took a heap,
And wav'd it o'er his neck with sudden sweep,
And on the hapless driver's sconce
He laid a blow so hard and full,

That crack'd the nuts at once,

But with them crack d his skull.

Young folks, whene'er you feel inclin'd To rompish sports and freedoms rough, Bear tit for tat in mind,

Nor give an Elephant a cuff,

To be repaid in kind.