. Thackerayana;. 3io THACKER A YANA. 6 Of all the several classes of scribblers; there is none more sillythan your authors of Travels. There are several things commonto all these travellers, and yet peculiar to every particular have at this time in my hands a little manuscript, entitled Travels from Exeter to London, with proper observatiojis Bythe sagacity shown in the remarks, I take the author to be somepolite squire of Devon. In the following passages our travellerrecords his observations in the great metropolis :— 1 In this great city people are quite another thing than whatth
. Thackerayana;. 3io THACKER A YANA. 6 Of all the several classes of scribblers; there is none more sillythan your authors of Travels. There are several things commonto all these travellers, and yet peculiar to every particular have at this time in my hands a little manuscript, entitled Travels from Exeter to London, with proper observatiojis Bythe sagacity shown in the remarks, I take the author to be somepolite squire of Devon. In the following passages our travellerrecords his observations in the great metropolis :— 1 In this great city people are quite another thing than whatthey are out of it; insomuch, that he who will be very great withyou in the country, will scarce pull off his hat to you in once dined at Exeter with a couple of judges, and they talked tome there, and drank my health, and we were very familiar. together. So when I saw them again passing through WestminsterHall, I was glad of it with all my heart, and ran to them with abroad smile, to ask them how they did, and to shake hands withthem ; but they looked at me so coldly and so proudly as youcannot imagine, and did not seem to know me, at which I wasconfounded, angry, and mad ; but I kept my mind to myself. At another time I was at the playhouse (which is arare placefor mirth, music, and dancing), and being in the pit, saw in one ofthe boxes a member of Parliament of our county, with whom Ihave been as great as hand and glove ; so being overjoyed to seehim, I called to him aloud by his name, and asked him how hedid ; but instead of saluting me again, or making any manner ofanswer, he looked plaguy sour, and never opened his mouth,though when he is in the country, he is as merry a grigg as any inforty miles, and we have cracked many a bottle together/ THE HUMOURIST: 311 Of Education. * People, put by their education into a narrow
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