PARR AND ERSKINE.

DR. PARR and Lord Erskine are said to have been the vainest men of their

time. At a dinner some years since, Dr. Parr, in ecstasies with the

conversational powers of Lord Erskine, called out to him, though his

junior, "My Lord, I mean to write your epitaph." "Dr. Parr," replied the

noble lawyer, "it is a temptation to commit suicide."

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