couple of heads which, in the

   Sportsman's Calendar, are called a brace of knowing ones; and, as a great many people about London affect to be thought knowing ones, they dress themselves in these fashions, as if it could add to the dignity of ahead, to shew they have taken their degrees from students in the stable, up to the masters of arts, upon a coach-box. [

    Gives the two heads off, and takes the book-case.

   ]

   The phrase of wooden-heads is no longer paradoxical; some people set up wooden studies, cabinet-makers become book-makers, and a man may shew a parade of much reading, by only the assistance of a timber-merchant. A student in the temple may be furnished with a collection of law books cut from a

    whipping-post

   ; physical dictionaries may be had in

    Jesuits' bark

   ; a treatise upon duels in

    touchwood

   ; the history of opposition in

    wormwood

   ; Shakespeare's works in

    cedar

   , his commentators in

    rotten wood

   ; the reviewers in birch, and the history of England in

    heart of oak

   .

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