auditor is placed. Under such circumstances, therefore, the performers
should be stationed in the middle of the apartment.--_Ibid._

[2] Travels through Sicily and the Lipari Islands in the month of
December, 1824. By a Naval Officer. 1 vol. 8vo. London, 1827.

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THE GATHERER.


A snapper up of unconsidered trifles.
SHAKSPEARE.

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PATHETIC EPITAPH.

(_To the Editor._)

Among the many monumental inscriptions and epitaphs which have fallen
under my notice (and I have been a "Gatherer" ever since the days of my
childhood) I have seldom met with one more calculated to start the
tender tear than the following, which I copied from an old and long
since defunct _periodical_, which describes it as "placed by a Mr.
Thickness on the grave of his daughter, who lies buried in his