And no wonder; just look at it now (as I have copied it to the best of my humble ability), and compare Master Logic’s countenance and attitude with the splendid elegance of Tom! Now every London man is weary and _blasé_. There is an enjoyment of life in these young bucks of 1823 which contrasts strangely with our feelings of 1860. Here, for instance, is a specimen of their talk and walk, “If,’ says LOGIC—‘if _enjoyment_ is your _motto_, you may make the most of an evening at Vauxhall, more than at any other place in the metropolis. It is all free and easy. Stay as long as you like, and depart when you think proper.’—‘Your description is so flattering,’ replied JERRY, ‘that I do not care how soon the time arrives for us to start.’ LOGIC proposed a ‘_bit of a stroll_’ in order to get rid of an hour or two, which was immediately accepted by Tom and Jerry. A _turn_ or two in Bond Street, a _stroll_ through Piccadilly, a _look in_ at TATTERSALL’s, a _ramble_ through Pall Mall, and a _strut_ on the Corinthian path, fully occupied the time of our heroes until the hour for dinner arrived, when a few glasses of TOM’s rich wines soon put them on the _qui vive_. VAUXHALL was then the object in view, and the TRIO started, bent upon enjoying the pleasures which this place so amply affords.” How nobly those inverted commas, those italics, those capitals, bring out the writer’s wit and relieve the eye! They are as good as jokes, though you mayn’t quite preceive the point. Mark the varieties of lounge in which the young men indulge—now a _stroll_, then a _look in_, then a _ramble_, and presently a _strut_. When George, Prince of Wales, was twenty, I have read in an old Magazine, “the Prince’s lounge” was a peculiar manner of walking which the young bucks imitated. At Windsor George III. had a _cat’s path_—a sly early walk which the good old king took in the grey morning before his household was astir. What was the Corinthian path here recorded? Does any antiquary know? And what were the rich wines which our friends took, and which enable them to enjoy Vauxhall? Vauxhall is gone, but the wines which could occasion such a delightful perversion of the intellect as to enable it to enjoy ample pleasures there, what were they?