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Excerpt from The Lounger, Vol. 2 of 3: A Periodical Paper, Published at Edinburgh in the Years 1785 and 1786
My brother, you mull know, has a mind to be a parliament-man, and fo he invites all the coun try, high and low, to eat and drink with him and fometimes I have been fadly out of counte nance, and fo have we all, when fome of his old acquaintance have told long fiories of things which happened to them formerly, though ten to one my brother does not remember a fyllable of them. As t'other day, when our fchool mafier's fon Samuel put him in mind of their going together to Edinburgh for the firft time, and how they had but one pair of (ill: flockings between them, and my brother had them on in the morning to fee a gentleman who was firfi coufin to an Eafi India Dire�'tor, and Sam got them in the evening to vilit the Principal of the college and all this before Sir Harry Driver, Lord Squanderfield, and Lady Betty Lampoon. Then my brother is turned an improver, which every body fays is an excellent way of laying out his money, and is fo public-fpirited l - and the planner who has come to give directions about it tells us, that in a few years hence he will get five pounds for every five (billings he lays out now in that way. In the mean time, however, it gives him a fad deal of trouble; when every thing is refolved upon to-day, 'tis a chance but it is all turned topfiy-turvey to-morrow for his voters.
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