The English servant-girl in Humphry Clinker (Letter of July 18), after describing how the filth is thus thrown out, says:'The maid calls gardy loo to the passengers, which signifies Lord have mercy upon you!' Wesley, when at Edinburgh in May, 1761, writes:'How can it be suffered that all manner of filth should still be thrown even into this street

I was in town on Monday; the Duchess of Beaufort graced our loo, and made it as rantipole as a Quaker's meeting.

He sees in it nothing but an affectation, fishing for further praises; and, fastening on his account of his ordinary occupations, he pronounces that a man of fifty should be ashamed of playing loo till after midnight.

"I said 'Toora-loo.'