(looking towards the Cottage) for excepting your own, we have passed none in this place, which can be the abode of a Gentleman.”--M^r H. looked very much astonished--& replied--“What Sir! are you expecting to find a Surgeon in that Cottage?--We have neither Surgeon nor Partner in the Parish I assure you.”--“Excuse me Sir--replied the other. I am sorry to have the appearance of contradicting you--but though from the extent of the Parish or some other cause you may not be aware of the fact;--stay--Can I be mistaken in the place?--Am I not in Willingden?--Is not this Willingden?” “Yes Sir, this is certainly Willingden.” “Then Sir, I can bring proof of your having a Surgeon in the Parish-- whether you may know it or not. Here Sir--(taking out his Pocket book--) if you will do me the favour of casting ( 7 ) your eye over these advertisements, which I cut out myself from the Morning Post & the Kentish Gazette, only yesterday morn^g in London--I think you will be convinced that I am not speaking at random. You will find it an advertisement Sir, of the dissolution of a Partnership in the Medical Line-- in your own Parish--extensive Business --undeniable Character--respectable references--wishing to form a separate Establishment--You will find it at full length Sir”--offering him the two little oblong extracts.--“Sir--said M^r Heywood with a good humoured smile--if you were to shew me all the Newspapers that are printed in one week throughout the Kingdom, you w^d not persuade me of there being a Surgeon in Willingden,--for having lived here ever since I was born, Man & Boy 57 years, I think I must ( 8 ) have _known_ of such a person, at least I may venture to say that he has not _much Business_--To be sure, if Gentlemen were to be often attempting this Lane in Post-chaises, it might not be a bad speculation for a Surgeon to get a House at the top of the Hill.--But as to that Cottage, I can assure you Sir that it is in fact--(in spite of its spruce air at this distance--) as indifferent a double Tenement as any in the Parish, and that my Shepherd lives at one end, & three old women at the other.” He took the peices of paper as he spoke--& having looked them over, added--“I beleive I can explain it Sir.--Your mistake is in the place.-- There are two Willingdens in this Country--& your advertisements refer to the other--which is Great Willingden, or Willingden Abbots, & lies 7 miles off, on the other side of Battel ( 9 )