JOACHIM THE MIMIC.

Be £ HERE was, once upon a time, a little
boy, who, living i in the time when
4 Genies and Fairies ufed now and then
fq to appear, had all the advantage of
seers occafionally feeing wonderful fights,
and all the di/advantage of being occafionally dread-
fully frightened. ‘This little boy was one day walk-
ing alone by the fea fide, for he lived in a fifhing
town, and as he was watching the tide, he perceived
a bottle driven afhore by one of the big waves.
He rufhed forward to catch it before the wave
fucked it back again, and fucceeded. Now then
he was quite delighted, but he could not get the
cork out, for it was faftened down with rofin, and
there was a feal on the top. So being very im-
patient, he took a ftone and knocked the neck of
the bottle off.

What was his furprize to find himfelf inftantly
fuffocated with a fmoke that made his eyes fmart
and his nofe {neeze, juft as much as if a quantity
of Scotch {nuff had been thrown over him! He