AN ESPECIAL FAVOR.

A BARONET scientifically skilled in pugilism, enjoyed no pleasure so

much as giving gratuitous instructions in his favorite art. A peer

paying him a visit, they had a sparring-match, in the course of which he

seized his lordship behind, and threw him over his head with a violent

shock. The nobleman not relishing this rough usage, "My lord," said the

baronet, respectfully, "I assure you that I never show this manoeuvre

except to my particular friends."

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