If to have "had losses" be, as affirmed by Dogberry in one of Shakspeare's most charming plays, and corroborated by Sir Walter Scott in one of his most charming romances--(those two names do well in juxtaposition, the great Englishman! the great Scotsman!)--If to have "had losses" be a main proof of credit and respectability, then am I one of the most responsible persons in the whole county of Berks. To say nothing of the graver matters which figure in a banker's book, and make, in these days of pounds, shillings, and pence, so large a part of the domestic tragedy of life--putting wholly aside all the grander transitions of property in house and land, of money on mortgage, and money in the f…
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