AN EVENING PARTY.

A FRIEND of mine, in Portland place, has a wife who inflicts upon him,

every season, two or three immense evening parties. At one of those

parties, he was standing in a very forlorn condition, leaning against

the chimney-piece, when a gentleman coming up to him, said, "Sir, as

neither of us is acquainted with any of the people here, I think we had

best go home."

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