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ON TALKING AND TALKERS.

[From Ike Nett Monthly Magatime)

It is one of the distinctive characteristics of the
animal which naturalists poli!ely call home sapiens
that he has the power of t ornmunicating his thoughts
by speech. This faculty is peculiar to him, at
least he sly* so. though we hive the evidence of the
Arabian Tales mid Loop to the contrary. At pre.
sent, however, as we have not the capacity which a
s
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ol
er g ouri
ce d
otCaliphsay,
brethren,a:tnriuhdhberi
wii
yedughel iseveoo: ourselves
o theytas
nuo
ntonaol: and
at
ddl
talkers
esf:er
leaveu. ;to, tat
opdshnnieaelaiegi
rdrftinseumi feathered
.rtl
talking
wifleand
the
languagehdi 1:t
talkr relations,
world
ownrgwgto:
toes,
affords! We begin to talk befoayriemouwatehehapearrperneoansii.iive;
an
ill
we have said all we had to say.
they do not understand, in season mid out of sea.
son,llo, to
rather Pet sot
persons,
and
dt
:If. I kPta.tr sa°llll,l,
himself; and so strong is the passion, that he will
frequently talk in his sleep. We slash endeavour to
enumerate a few of the great variety of talkers,
Beginning de nrininsis, we shall first say a wool
Or Iwo if what may be called the silent talker.,
people who say very little, and very frequently has,
great deal to say. This class, however, is very
small. It is chiefly composed of parsons who have
had very little to do with the world, and do not
care much about it, who are not desirous of shirting,
and who being too fond of retiring and quiet, would
rather listen to other people bilking nonserise thau
hear themselves talk sense. They are nut gene.
rally deficient in talent, but they want courage to
display it. and they suffer empty-headed fools to
engross all the converisstion with toe flippant babble
of their own vidu tongues, instead of boldly exclud-
lug them from the field, by putting forth the
strength of their own powerful intellects. Amongst
this class may in general be reckoned those men of
letters who have 'petit more time in study thao
society, and who, as Add son said of himself, are
not worth nine pence of ready cash in conversation,
but who can draw for thainiands in the retireiseat
of their own closets. These are the people whom
Cuwprr mentions when he says.
We soisotioses obiak we esstd a speech product
Much to the purpose, if ear Worms were loom;
Bet [rein tied, it dies wpm the lip,
Filet as a chicken's ante slat has the pip.
Oar wasted oil unprofitably borne,
Like hiddeu lamps is old sepulchral yeas.
And this is oleo the case, mote or less, with every
man on his first 'titmice into life, unless he be in-
sufferably impudent, when he will not care what he
says, nor any body else either.
Just the reverse to these are your incessant talk-
ers, who whether they talk sense or nonsense, are
almost equally sisnoyong. They are people, who ill
Shakipeare's words have got" the disease of not lis-
tening." When you unexpectedly meet with a man
of this kind, it is like getting tinders shower-bath,
and when you expect the pelting stream to cease,
finding it still flawing on with unabating violence.
There is too safely with such people but in flighl.
It is in vain to remonstrate, or rather to strive to
remonstrate, for you might as well think to cum
another hour into the twenty-four, or to stop with
your fore-linger the whirl of a water-wheel as to
iiiserpioe a word in such discourse, or mop it
before the speaker's breath is spent. If you en-
deavour to urge any topic ill mitigation of punish-
ment, you only odd fresh fuel to the flame ; if you
tell your enemy you have an engagement, lie will
give you a history of his own, past, prevent, and to
come ; if you plead indisposition, he will tell
you all about his last influenza and all the doctor
said ; in short there is not a single topic upon which
he will not "discourse must excellent music."
Men and women and children of all ranks and ages
mingle in this class.
But the worst of all are your tedious and prolix
talkers. This fault, however, is generally con-
fiord to those having an authority, for other people
quickly find that they can get nobody to listen to
them. Oh ! the horror of being stuck down by the
side ()famine ancient great molt, or some potrouiziug
friend, and being condemned to keep our ears open
to the almost noiseless but uninterrupted flow of
vapid words which issue from the respected mouth.
The only remedy in such cases is to employ the
thoughts shout mote pleasant matters, but then
this is a very hazardous attempt, as it is doge
at the imminent peril of a discovery, should -our
patron happen to put his snrciaeles oat and sro
the wandering looks in our Nee ; said what au agoay
it is to be detained in this manner when you are
burningly eager to pursue some other object, the
whichch+nee of
wod a
r everyre e
rendering moremitentandeverrtp
every long
The remedy which we recommended in the last
case, in this it is impossible to apply, as flight
would be the greatest moult in she world. Pa-
tience, then. and a nod of the head at every pause
(if there should happen to any,) ere the only things
to be recommended ; and a person, on the conclu-
sion of his sufferings„ should be particularly care-
sfolliicnin,tultaolkleitthtelet
heav
The imprudent, or wail-(1-p
:ycraPsgirioelglpo)osfrir,:e.:l4lkiicripir.,Lieurersat
voeurty,
dangerous hotly of men, and they do molt naieciite f
than ally other class. They are perpetually by vogue
iiffatnahon or other. hitting on theonly damp in toe
wor 1(1 that ought not to be mentioned in that company
slid while they we as innocent as the child @ciboria,
of uny intention to offeud. they're continually
rowing up the feeliogs of their friends. or pulling
them out of counteuance. The root of their
&smog is inatteotioa to the characters and feeliogs
of others thus they talk of halters and gibbets mu
the preseace of • man whose brother has had the
misfortune to be hanged.

. _
DEATH&
Oa the litta iesteet, at Weedlama Villa, near Boob, !filet
Eaq. third son of the lair Sir Falaard Smyille. Bart
of Acura Bengali, Mealy Of Salop, by 'Alloy Sig our, dauCi.
ter to Hush Lord Clifford. Mr. Smythe isiarriid in ISO
Loey, ~toed &neater itild entirietir• of the late Edit,
halyard,. Eaq. of Haoghky Pork, Suffolk.
ON the 18th insiant, at Burton Hall. Yorkshire, in it
!Sib year of her see. Heariatta, youultent dasgbier of il
Tote Rev. C. Wyvill.

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