The humane part of the mob, who bestirred themselves for the
relief of the supposed lady, no sooner perceived their mistake in
the appearance of the beau, who stared around him with horror and
affright, than their compassion was changed into mirth, and they
began to pass a great many unsavoury jokes upon his misfortune,
which they now discovered no inclination to alleviate; and he
found himself very uncomfortably beset, when Pickle, pitying his
situation, interposed in his behalf, and prevailed upon the chairmen
to carry him into the house of an apothecary in the neighbourhood,
to whom his mischance proved a very advantageous accident; for the
fright operated so violently upon his nerves, that he was seized
with a delirium, and lay a whole fortnight deprived of his senses;
during which period he was not neglected in point of medicines, food,
and attendance, but royally regaled, as appeared by the contents
of his landlord's bill.
Our adventurer having seen this unfortunate beau safely housed,
returned to the scene of the other calamity, which, as it was no
other than a foul chimney, soon yielded to the endeavours of the
family, and was happily overcome, without any other bad consequence
than that of alarming the neighbours, disturbing the college, and
disordering the brain of a beau.
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