Of an old ate,

        t kept a brave old    a bountiful rate,

        And an old porter to relieve t e.

        itudy ?lld full of learned old books,

        it know him by his looks,

        ittery-ce off the hooks,

        And an old kitc maintained half-a-dozen old cooks.

        t uring and giving ludicrous appellations or niames. In ted, not merely individuals, but nations, and in t spared even themselves.

        One    in personifying itself a nation    to picture somet it is ceristic of t is blunt, id familiar, t tional oddities in turdy, corpulent old fello, red coat, leatout oaken cudgel. taken a singular deliging t private foibles in a laug of vie tual existence more absolutely present to t etric personage, John Bull.

        Perinual plation of ter tributed to ?x it upon tion, and to give reality to    ?rst may ed in a great measure from tion. Me to acquire peculiarities t are tinually ascribed to tivated o act up to ture t is perpetually before their eyes.

        Unluckily, times make ted Bullism an apology for ticed among truly ed beyond ttle uncout to utter impertirut o an     unreasonable burst of passion about tri?es,    Jo t and rays a coarseness of taste and an insensibility tn re?s, o be gulled by strangers and to pay extravagantly for absurdities is excused uhan wise.

        trive tue every fault into a merit, a felloence.

        tle, ter may ed in t insta ed itself to tion, or rated to eager udy Englisies may gation from traits of Joed in ture-sill, ile s t are tinually t s and presenting different aspects from different points of vieen as    resist temptation to give a sligc my eye.

        Joo all appearance, is a plain, doer-of-fact fellory about tle of roman ure, but a vast deal of strong natural feeling. ; is jolly rato a sudden tear or surprised into a broad laug iment and urn fry. o o talk about and by a friend in a quarrel     h life and purse, however soundly he may be cudgelled.

        In t respect, to tell truty to be someoo ready.    merely for    for all try round, and is most generously disposed to be everybodys ually volunteering o settle akes it i dudgeon if tter of sequence    asking    ?nisting into a squabble ies, and tterly at titude. ook lessons in    master at boxing and cudgel-play, roublesome life of it ever since.     distant of    ily to fumble erest or    require t ended ions of pride and polipletely over try t     take place    infringing some of s and dignities. Couctle domain, s stret, tle-bellied old spider    buzz nor a breeze blo startling o sally forthfully from his den.

        ted, good-tempered old fello bottom, yet    of tention. It is one of ies,    o a ?gy, but es out of it grumbling even s inacy to carry a tested     point, yet ion aken up     to let agonist pocket all t t. It is not, ting t    so muco be on    as making friends. It is dif?cult to cudgel    of a fart put    of all t. out s storm uninjured, but roll its masts overboard in the succeeding calm.

        tle fond of playing t a long purse, ?inging    at boxing-matcs, and carrying a ;gentlemen of t; but immediately after one of ts of extravagance aken    qualms of ey; stop s at t trivial expenditure; talk desperately of being ruined and broug pay t tradesmans bill    violent altercation. , t punctual and distented paymaster in t of    e reluce, paying to ttermost fart apanying every guinea h a growl.

        italk of ey, iful provider and a able s c being to devise o be extravagant; for eak and pint of port one day t    an ox    all .

        ic establis is enormously expensive, not so muc out ption of solid beef and pudding, t number of folloo pay    kind and indulgent master, and, provided s ies, ?atter y a little no peculate grossly on o perfe. Everyt lives on o t. s are le to do. ate carriage; and ly about t a housebreaker.

        ellated manor- venerable ten appeara    upon nular plan, but is a vast accumulation of parts erected in various tastes and ages. tre bears evident traces of Saxon arcecture, and is as solid as ponderous stone and old Englis. Like all t style, it is full of obscure passages, intricate mazes, and dusty cially lig t still grope in tions o time to time, and great alterations aken place; totlements ed during umults:    in time of peace; and out-o t geions, until it    spacious, rambling tes imaginable. Aire aken up    must uous, and, indeed, in spite of ered and simpli?ed at various periods, ill a look of solemn religious pomp. Its oried s of Joors, and it is snugly ?tted up    cuso cably in ties.

        to keep up t Jo aunce t many dissenting ced in y, and several    papists.

        to do ties of tains, at a large expense, a pious and portly family c learned and decorous personage and a truly    tle peccadilloes, rebukes tory, and is of great use in exis to read to pay ts punctually and    grumbling.

        tments are in a very antiquated taste, some, but full of times, ?tted up apestry, unure, and loads of massy, geous old plate. t ?replaces, ample kitsive cellars, and sumptuous baing-ality of days of yore, of y at t a se suites of rooms apparently deserted and time-ourrets t are t to decay, so t in umbling about the household.

        Joly been advised to o s pulled dterials; but tlemay on t.     it is tig to be sempests; t it ood for several    likely to tumble do as to its being inve, omed to t be fortable    t as to its unru, t from its being turies and being improved by tion; t an old family, like o dart families may live in modern cottages and snug boxes; but an old Englis an old English manor-house.

        If you point out any part of ts t it is material ttion of t and t ts are so built into eac if you pull do your ears.

        t of tter is, t Jo disposition to proted patronize.    indispensable to ty of an a and o be bounteous in its appois and to be eaten up by depes; and so, partly from pride and partly from kind-edness,    a rule alo give ser and mainteo ed servants.

        t, like many otabliss, ainers urn off, and an old style s magnitude, is not a oe for its inants. Not a nook or er but is of use in housing some useless personage.

        Groups of veteran beef-eaters, gouty pensioners, aired tery and t its s las tree, or sunning t its doors. Every of?d out-o leave Joo be provided for. A mattock ot be struck against t mouldering     tumble-doo out pops, from some y or loope of some superannuated    Jo grievous outcry at t servant of t Jo    never    and; so t a man ankard in his old days.

        A great part of urned into paddocks, o graze undisturbed for tences--a eful recolle ate,    be to t. Indeed, it is one of    pleasures to point out teeds to ors, to dies, extol t services, and boast, tle vain-glory, of tures and s they have carried him.

        o indulge ion for family usages and family encumbrao a . ed by gangs of gypsies; yet    suffer to be driven off, because ted time out of mind and been regular poa of t a dry branco be lopped from t trees t surround t it s t uries. Oe, but tary o not be disturbed. Sins build in every frieze and ice; croter about toer of t of tedly in broad daylight.

        In s, Jo     hey are good old family abuses.

        All ts o drain tlemans purse; and as uality in money matters and ain    in t perplexity iing s. too, ercations and -burnings aking pla    up to different callings and are of different o speak t fail to exercise t clamorously in t posture of and up for t tablis s up in all its state, ; ot and siderate, eleman to retrenco put em of e footing.    times, seemed ined to listen to t tely defeated by treperous duct of one of tle-pated fellos,    ale-or of village clubs and a plete oracle among t of enants. No sooner does ion reform or retrenc takes t of t for aurn.

        ongue is once going notop it. s about tors t    practices; ridicules astes and pursuits; insists t urn ts out of dive to t cake a ?eld-preac tar built in its place.    every social eai and family festivity, and skulks ao to tantly plaining of tiness of     to spend all -money in tavern vocations, and even runs up scores for t ravagance.

        It may readily be imagile sug agrees emperament. able from repeated crossings t tion of retrenc or reform is a signal for a braween avern oracle.

        As tter is too sturdy and refractory for paternal discipline,    of all fear of t ses of imes run so    Joo call in tom, an of?cer    present living at home on half-pay.

        t is sure to stand by tleman, riging, roistering life, and is ready at a o out sabre and ?ouris over tors o array    parental auty.

        t abroad, and are rare food for sdal in Joo look wise and sioned.

        t; matters are not so bad ed; but    ravaga be badly maand gaged over inually dabbling ainly an open-leman, but too fast; iing, rag revelling, and prize-?g, Mr. Bulls estate is a very ?ne one and , for all t, tates e to t;

        is    of all, is t ic feuds ead of t jolly round corporation and smug rosy face , e bee as s-bitten apple.    gold-laced coat,    ly o s t yaurdy legs.

        Instead of strutting about as formerly    on one side, ?ouris do y turdily in trolling out a stave of a catc fully to ucked uo ttom of s, y.

        Suc of    Jo present, yet for all t is as tall and as gallant as ever.

        If you drop t expression of sympatakes ?re in an instant; s    and stoutest fellory; talks of laying out large sums to adorn ate; and    s quarter-staff.

        t I fess I ot look upon Jouation    strong feelings of i. itinate prejudices erling-ed old blade.    be so    ties. ravagance savors of y, y of y of ness of y. ter. , but sound and solid ion to timber; and orm from tude and luxuriaoo, in t is extremely poetical and picturesque; and as long as it    be rendered fortably able I s tremble to see it meddled    ?ict of tastes and opinions. Some of    good arcects t mig many, I fear, are mere levellers, o tocks on top until t it to t I roubles may teacure--t o distress    ot less attempt to promote t of t ly at    o repair; cultivate ate acc to o order--if    prosperity; and long enjoy on ernal lands a green, an honorable, and a merry old age.
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