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Minor Notes.
_A smart Saying of Baxter._--In his _Aggravations of Vain Babbling_,
speaking of gossips, Baxter says:
"If I had one to send to school that were sick of the talking evil--the
_morbus loquendi_--I would give (as Isocrates required) a double pay to
the schoolmaster willingly; one part for teaching him to hold his
tongue, and the other half for teaching him to speak. I should think
many such men and women half cured if they were half as weary of
speaking as I am of hearing them. _He that lets such twattling swallows
build in his chimney may look to have his pottage savour of their
dung._"