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THE

PERCY ANECDOTES,

BY

SHOLTO AND REUBEN PERCY,
Brothers of the Benedictine Monastery, Mont Benger.

This Work will be published in Monthly Parts, price 2s. 6d. each, in a neat pocket size. Every Part will be embellished with a highly finished ornamental Portrait, and will contain Anecdotes on one particular subject. Part may be purchased separately.

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W. Wilberforce, Esq. M.P.
Lord Erskine.

Son of Sir George Dallas.

4.. George III. & his Family George III. and George IV.

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9..Justice 10..Instinct... 11..Humour 12..Imagination 13.. Fidelity. 14..Fine Arts 15..Hospitality 16..The Bar 17..Genius 18..Shipwreck

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Mungo Park.

Sir Sidney Smith.
Sir Joseph Banks.
Marquess of Anglesea.
Lord Eldon.

Each

The Ettrick Shepherd.
George Colman, the Younger.
Sir Walter Scott, Bart.
Marquess of Hastings.

Sir Thomas Lawrence, Knt.
Thomas William Coke, Esq.
T. Denman, Esq.

Robert Southey, Esq..
Captain Maxwell, K.B.

AND OTHER SUBJECTS IN SUCCESSION.

"These are entertaining presents for the grown-up lovers of Anecdote, and excellent presents for Children. The work is handsomely got up." Literary Gazette.

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"One superiority they possess over every other collection we have met with---a marked exclusion of every thing of an immoral taint prevails throughout; and as volumes for the family fireside, which a father may put with confidence into the hands of his children, we do not hesitate to give them our most unqualified recommendation." Literary Chronicle,

From the " Percy Anecdotes.

Fellow Soldiers.At the siege of Capella, in 1650, by the French, a Spaniard learnt that his friend had been thrown into the trench by a musket ball. He instantly flew to his succour, but found him stretched on the ground, and dead. He threw himself on the body of his friend, embraced him, pressed him for some time to his palpitating breast, and overwhelmed with grief, he expired almost instantly. The archduke informed of this event, gave orders to bury in the same tomb those two friends, whom death itself could not separate. Their bodies were carried in great pomp to Avesnes, where a marble mausoleum was erected to their memory. It was the monument which sensibility erected to friendship. Fidelity.

Tribute to Beauty.- As the late beautiful Duchess of Devonshire was one day stepping out of her carriage, a dustman, who was accidentally standing by, and was about to regale himself with his accustomed whiff of tobacco, caught a glance of her countenance, and instantly exclaimed, "Love and bless you, my lady, let me light my pipe in your eyes!" It is said the duchess was so delighted with this compliment, that she frequently afterwards checked the strain of adulation which was so constantly offered to her charms, by saying, "Oh! after the dustman's compliment, all others Humour. are insipid."

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Genuine Laziness.- - A young farmer inspecting his father's concerns in the time of hay harvest, found a body of the mowers asleep, when they should have been at work. "What is this?" cried the youth; "why, me, you are so indolent, that I would give a crown to know which is the most lazy of I am he," cried the one nearest to him, still stretchyou. ing himself at his ease. "Here, then," said the youth, holding out the money. "Oh, Master George," said the fellow, folding his arms, " do pray take the trouble of putting Humour. it into my pocket for me." Singular Interposition. A lady had a tame bird which she was in the habit of letting out of its cage every day. One morning as it was picking crumbs of bread off the carpet, her cat, who always before shewed great kindness for the bird, seized it on a sudden, and jumped with it in her mouth upon a table. The lady was much alarmed for the fate of her favourite; but on turning about, instantly discerned the The door had been left open, and a strange cat had just come into the room! After turning it out, her own cat came down from her place of safety, and dropped the bird Instinct. without doing the smallest injury.

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