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_Anecdote._--Can you tell me the names of the clergyman and noble lord

referred to in the following anecdote?

"A noble lord distinguished for a total neglect of religion, and

who, boasting the superior excellence of some water works which he

had invented and constructed, added, that after having been so

useful to mankind, he expected to be very _comfortable_ in the

next world, notwithstanding his ridicule and disbelief of

religion. 'Ah,' replied the clergyman, 'if you mean to be

_comfortable_ there, you must take your _waterworks_ along with

you.'"--Daniel's _Sports_, Supplement, p. 305.

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