You knew Mr. Capel, Dr. Johnson?---“Yes, Sir; I have seen him at
Garrick’s.” And what think you of his abilities? “They are just
sufficient, Sir, to enable him to select the black hairs from the white
ones, for the use of the periwig-makers. Were he and I to count the
grains in a bushel of wheat for a wager, he would certainly prove the
winner.”
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