so common to his character; but like most men who feed on that flattering pabulum— hope he looked to a more favourable finalé.

At his next visit the herald greeted him with a merry smile; after considerable learned research, he had succeeded in proving that the name of Jingles was a mere corruption-a vulgarism of the very respectable and ancient Scotch family name, Inglis, and that the Jingleses, of Shropshire, (from whence came this Jingles) were a branch of that renowned house who had migrated into England, and settled at Shrewsbury in the earlier part of the seventeenth century, and consequently Mr. Jingles was fully authorized in assuming the name and escutheon of the elder branch of Inglis, debarring a quartering which in a successive generation had been introduced consequent upon a matrimonial alliance.

Mr. Jingles (we beg his pardon) Mr. Inglis, was verily delighted; he felt the blood tingling at his ear tips, he rapidly began to inflate with family pride, and truly a cubit was added to his stature !

"You see, sir," said the cunning old heraldic purveyor, you see, sir," repeated

he, searchingly peering into the lit-up visage of his credulous and vain client, “that the Scotch names-at least, some of them-are oddly pronounced-I mean differently from the manner in which they are spelt. To wit, McLeod as if it were Ma cloud, Dalziel, by merely sounding the initial and final letters as if the word were eviscerated thus, D-1, and, with regard to your own patronymic, it is commonly pronounced Ingles, and thus, by the mere prefixture of a J, you then have the corrupted Jingles!

These explanations were exceedingly satisfactory to the about-to-be country gentleman, he brightened up, and inwardly thanked society that patronage had been given to such a useful study as genealogy; indeed, he ranked it before geology, palæontology, and even gammonology, or any other of the ologies now so commonly studied; because it had the power of adding lustre and standing to those who meritoriously gain the ascendant, and was consequently an important department of human knowledge. It was consoling to reflect, that at the time spoken of one of the

most respectable houses in the city was Inglis, Ellice, and Co., and who would know otherwise than that he was connected with that great firm, and when he could now cite his Salopian ancestors, surely such distinguishing advantages would more than overbalance those of obscure country gentlemen whose names and influence were unknown, and unfelt beyond the confines of one-third of their shire! Yes, when he went down amongst them, he determined on making frequent allusion to that great metropolitan house of Inglis, Ellice, and Co., and also on informing them that his forefathers had held estates in Shropshire for more two hundred years! After a slight pause, he broke

silence, and said

"But what of the lions? I hope you have saved them?"

"In that particular I have been also successful; they came into your shield anterior to the immigration of your Salopian ancestry, and since that time have been entered on the heraldic records. I think you said they were semi-lions rampant ?"

"I beg your pardon, but I scarcely comprehend the nomenclature of your learned science ?"

"Well, I mean," replied the genealogist, "that the effigies of the animals are truncated thus." The expounder of the science, to illustrate his meaning, quickly made himself understood by sketching the true emblem of the Inglis house on the back of a card, which showed a rampant lion with tail erect, wanting the hind quarters. It having so happened that the leonine beasts erected on the gate posts at Elleringay were untruncated, therefore slightly disagreeing with the heraldic illustrations. This was a difficulty easily got over, and the genealogist suggested the superaddition of a little brick-work and cement, which would happily cut off the redundant parts of the ferocious pieces of sculpture, and make them coincide with the huge tome of heraldic devices which lay on the table. "Your motto is an aristocratic and happy one," added the genealogist, 'Nobilis est ira leonis'-how applicable!"

"Now that I remember, there was some

inscription beneath those fleur-de-lis: of course it had constituted the sentence on the De Bohun shield."

"Nec parvis sisto," quickly replied the armorial vendor, as if, forsooth, he had at his fingers' ends every particular that pertained from the Vere de Veres to the last baron. "Yes, that is De Bohun's," continued he, quickly opening the book, and giving ocular proof of the statement.

"The inscription shall of course be placed on the edge of the entablature-of course it shall," returned Mr. Inglis, with an air of importance.

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In the process of time an of time an escutcheon was prepared for Mr. Inglis that might have sufficed had he been risen to the peerage. It was composed of showy elements, and we fear the herald manufacturer had taken the liberty of superadding certain features, to render it more likely to meet the approbation of the vainglorious applicant. This accommodating person intimated that, in consideration of an ample fee, he doubted not that he might be enabled to confer as