as Tennyson calls them. An apt turn for flattery was very requisite in an accomplished barber--one of the most difficult things, by the way, for humanity to attain to; for if satire should wound, like a keen razor, “with a touch that’s scarcely felt or seen,” flattery, like rouge, should be applied with a very delicate hand, indeed. Suckling’s verses allude to this hazardous feat: “When I’m at work, I’m bound to find discourse To no great purpose, of great Sweden’s force, Of Witel, and the Burse, and what ’twill cost To get that back which was this summer lost. So fall to praising of his lordship’s hair, Ne’er so deformed, I swear ’tis _sans_ compare: I tell him that the King’s does sit no fuller, And yet his is not half so good a colour: Then reach a pleasing glass, that’s made to lye Like to its master most notoriously: And if he must his mistress see that day, I with a powder send him strait away.” But other duties such as bleeding, cupping, and drawing teeth had to be attended to in turn. Those who have seen the “Black rotten teeth in order strung, Rang’d cups, that in the window stood, Lin’d with red rags to look like blood,” will acknowledge that this was once a very important branch of industry. We have ourselves seen the tooth of some unknown animal in a collection of the kind, which, for size, would have astonished Professor Owen; the sight of it, we were told, had frightened away many a toothache. The reader has probably met with the anecdote of Queen Elizabeth, who hesitated about having a tooth drawn; when Bishop Aylmer sat down in the chair, and said to the operator, “Come, though I am an old man, and have but few teeth to spare, draw me this!” which was done; and the queen, seeing him make so slight a matter of it, sat down and had hers drawn, also. When it was part of the popular belief that the human subject required to be bled at regular intervals to ensure good health and make the ladies fair, and when every barber-surgeon was ready “to breathe a vein,” we may be sure the lancet was in constant request. Cupping was recommended to remove a catarrh or cold in the head; and one who made trial of its virtues says, he was startled by being asked by the operator if he wished to be _sacrificed_; but declined being scarified on that occasion. We take it for granted there must have been uncommon stamina in the British constitution, or it would long since have broken down hopelessly under the rough handling it has undergone.