UNREASONABLE FASTING.

TWO gentlemen, wishing to go into a tavern on one of the national

fast-days, found the door shut; and on their knocking, the waiter told

them from within, that his master would allow no one to enter during

service on the fast-day. "Your master," said one of them, "might be

contented _to fast himself_, without making his _doors fast too_."