We understand that Mr. Webster has solicited Sir Peter Laurie to make an early debut at the Haymarket Theatre in the _Heir_ (hair) _at Law_. Madame Vestris has also endeavoured to prevail upon the civic mercy. Andrew to appear in the afterpiece of the _Rape of the Lock_. * * * * * THE HEIR OF APPLEBITE. CHAPTER X. WHEREIN THE READER WILL FIND GREAT CAUSE FOR REJOICING. [Illustration: C]Conducive as Uncle Peter's suggestion might have been to the restoration of peace in the family of our hero, it was decided to be impracticable by several medical gentlemen, who were consulted upon the matter. After sundry scenes of maternal and grandmaternal distress, Agamemnon succeeded in obtaining the victory, and the heir was vaccinated accordingly with the most favourable result. The pustule rose, budded, blossomed, and disappeared, exactly as it ought to have done, and a few days saw the health of the infant Applebite insured in the office of Dr. Jenner. Scarcely had the anxious parents been relieved by this auspicious termination, when that painful disorder which renders pork unwholesome and children fractious, made its appearance. Had we the plague-pen of the romancist of Rookwood, we would revel in the detail of this domesticated pestilence--we would picture the little sufferer in the hour of its agony--and be as minute as Mr. Hume in our calculations of its feverish pulsations; but our quill was moulted by the dove, not plucked from the wing of the carrion raven. And now, gentle reader, we come to a point of this history which we are assured has been anxiously looked forward to by you--a point at which the reader, already breathless with expectation, has fondly anticipated being suffocated with excitement. We may, without vanity, lay claim to originality, for we have introduced a new hero into the world of fiction--a baby three months old--we have traced his happy parents from the ball-room to St. George's church; from St. George's church to the ball-room; thence to the doctor's; and from thence to THE END. Reproach us not, mamas?--Discard us not, ye blushing divinities who have, with your sex's softness, dandled the heir of Applebite in your imaginations!--Wait!--Wait till we have explained! We have a motive; but as we are novices in this style of literature, we will avail ourselves, at our leave-taking, of the valedictory address of one who is more "up to the swindle." _To the Readers of the Heir of Applebite._ DEAR FRIENDS,--Having finished the infanto-biography upon which we have been engaged, it is our design to cut off our heir, and bring our tale to a close. You may want to know why--or if you don't, we will tell you.