A QUALIFICATION.

A YOUNG nobleman, lately admitted a member of the Board of Agriculture,

observed, as he took his seat, that he himself was an extensive farmer.

The company knowing his lordship's pursuits to be very different, stared

a little at the declaration; but he explained it, by saying, he had

sowed a great deal of _wild oats_.

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