When Lady Barker comes to describe her domestic sorrows, she appeals, we think, to the deepest feelings of every mistress of a household. It is true, not every mistress is bound at untimely hours to listen to a dialogue between Maria and Dinah such as this :—: —

"I say, Dinah, don't you go to wear green, my girl ; I only tell j T ou friendly, but you're a deal too yellow for that. It suits me 'cause I'm so fresh and rosy ; but you never will have my 'plexion, not if you live to be eighty." This used to aggravate Dinah, and she would retaliate by repeating some com plimentary speech of Old Ben's, or Long Tom's the stockman,

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