we:--the jests of the rich are ever successful. Olivia too could
not avoid whispering, loud enough to be heard, that he had an
infinite fund of humour. After dinner, I began with my usual
toast, the Church; for this I was thanked by the chaplain, as he
said the church was the only mistress of his affections.--'Come
tell us honestly, Frank,' said the 'Squire, with his usual
archness, 'suppose the church, your present mistress, drest in
lawnsleeves, on one hand, and Miss Sophia, with no lawn about
her, on the other, which would you be for?' 'For both, to be
sure,' cried the chaplain.--'Right Frank,' cried the 'Squire;
'for may this glass suffocate me but a fine girl is worth all the
priestcraft in the creation. For what are tythes and tricks but
an imposition, all a confounded imposture, and I can prove it.'--
'I wish you would,' cried my son Moses, 'and I think,' continued
he, 'that I should be able to answer you.'--'Very well, Sir,'
cried the 'Squire, who immediately smoaked him,' and winking on
the rest of the company, to prepare us for the sport, if you are
for a cool argument upon that subject, I am ready to accept the
challenge. And first, whether are you for managing it
analogically, or dialogically?' 'I am for managing it
rationally,' cried Moses, quite happy at being permitted to
dispute. 'Good again,' cried the 'Squire, 'and firstly, of the
first. I hope you'll not deny that whatever is is. If you don't
grant me that, I can go no further.'--'Why,' returned Moses, 'I
think I may grant that, and make the best of it.'--'I hope too,'
returned the other, 'you'll grant that a part is less than the
whole.' 'I grant that too,' cried Moses, 'it is but just and
reasonable.'--'I hope,' cried the 'Squire, 'you will not deny,
that the two angles of a triangle are equal to two right ones.'--
'Nothing can be plainer,' returned t'other, and looked round with