Excerpt from Whims and Oddities: In Prose and Verse When I last made my best bow in this book, I imagined that the public, to use a nautical phrase, had parted from their best bower; but it was an agreeable mistake. The First and Second Series, being now, like Colman's two Single Gentlemen.

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