ABSTRACT
The following jeu d’esprit is the stick which is mentioned in the third number of the Liberal, as having been cut up for Mr Gifford’s special use. * It still would have been kept where I laid it up, for the reasons there specified; and to say the truth (being deficient in my duties as a ‘hater’) 4 I had resolved never to make use of it at all. But there may be reasons for altering my mind: – so, as the man in the play says, ‘If I must, I must’. It is but just at all times, and may be necessary at some, that people who make a sport of the lives and fortunes of others, should be made to pay back some of the advantages of which they deprive them.
