At the play of the Hypocrite, Lady B. L. applied to a Macaroni, who fat in the box, for a tranflation of fome fcraps of Latin, which are in the play. He declared he could not, on which fhe faid, "It was ftrange that a Puppy should not understand his own language."

A Malefactor, under fentence of death, petitioned Lord Chancellor Bacon for a reprieve, pretending to be a relation. His Lordship faid, he could not poffibly be Bacon till he had first been hung!

A dog ftole a piece of meat out of a Quaker's porridge pot; upon which the Quaker calmly faid, that he would not lift up the arm of the flesh against him, but give him a gentle reproof; and fo turning the dog out, he fhouted a mad dog! in confequence of which the poor animal was inftantly ftoned to death.

An old Female Methodist preached about the country that she had been eleven months in Heaven, One of the audience started up and faid, it was a pity that he did not stay the other odd month, as fhe might then have gained a fettlement.

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A Gentleman went to fee his fon at Weftminfter School, under the great Dr. Busby. When they were in difcourfe, over a bottle of wine, the Dr. fent for the boy. "Come," fays he, "young man, as your father is here, take a glafs of wine;" and quoted this Latin sentence : Paucum Vini, acuit Ingenium, (a little wine fharpens the wit.) The lad replied, Sed plus Vini, plus Ingenii! (the more wine, the more wit!) "Hold, young man," replied the Doctor, "tho' you argue on mathematical principles, you fhall have but one glass!"

The Count de B- met the Baron de Munchaufen, the Romancer, and told him this ftory: That when he was paffing through a wood in Tranfilvania, he met a furious Lion, which advanced, rampant, full fwing upon him, with his mouth open, and he whipt his hand down his throat and turned him infide out, as you would a stocking.

A Young Lady was taking the air on horse. back on Durdum Down, near Briftol, with her footman behind, unluckily her horfe threw her; when the called out, "John! did you ever see the like?" "Yes, madam," fays John, your fifter has just fuch another!

The Rev. Dr.

who lived near

York, had a cherry tree; and as the cherries. were ripe (being a corpulent man, he could not pull them himself) employed a lad for. the purpose; and when he mounted the tree he put a whistle into his mouth, and he called "whiftle, lad, whistle;" that he might not

out,

eat the cherries.

Mr. B, author of the Sublime and Beautiful, going to a book cafe and finding it locked and fastened, faid, this is Lock upon Human Understanding.

A Mr. Herring was hunting and unluckily fell into a bog, when one of his comrades fmartly faid, "Herring, you are in a fad pickle."

The following curious literary production was copied, verbatim, from the Salisbury Journal. It was addressed to the printer of that paper:

"Sir,

"Whereas the Peaple of Daverhill givs it out that it was oing to I that the Womun, there hangd her self, because when I preached to the Fokes, I told um, as how they was all dam

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med as did ent foller my way-Now I fay I could not help it if the womun hanged her felf becaufe If I can tell who will be dammed I is ignorant who will hang themselves--they have foarced me to fend this hadvertizement to you, cause the ignorant fhoudunt disperse my Karacter, as I mite loufe my Congregation and by that means they woud be eternally loft, caufe how fhoud they hear without a Preacher. fo Mifter Printer preay reform the Publick, that I afks their pardens if the Womun hanged her self. For I as I hopes they will drop any furder flanderous perfecution about I.

J. HAMLIN."

Mr. T. S. of

Yorkshire, at din.

ner at Sir J. K. where the difcourfe fell on the breeding a good Racer, and that a thorough bred Race Horfe on the male fide was beft; "Nay," faid S. "without they have it on the mother's fide alfo, I am fure they will be good for nothing. Ye'll all allow that I have common fenfe, but my wife is a dd fool, and my children take after her."

A Gentleman and a Lady pulled out their watches in company at the fame time; he bethought

thought himfelf of an appointment; on which the Lady faid, "how do we vary as to time?" "Very much indeed," replied the Gentleman, you make me forget it, when my watch reminds me of it."

Mrs. Shandy, fancied herself the Queen of Bohemia. Triftram, her husband, to amuse and induce her to take the air, propofed courfing, in the way practifed in Bohemia; for that purpose he procured bladders, and filled them with beans, and tied them to the wheels of a fingle horfe chair. When he drove madaminto a ftubble field, with the motion of the carriage and the bladders, rattle bladder, rattle; it alarmed the hares, and the greyhounds were ready to take them.

A man had two fons, one rofe with the lark, the other laid long in bed. The early rifer found a purfe, which the father carries to the fluggard. "Look ye!" fays he, "if you had been up as your brother was, you would have found this purfe." "Poffibly," anfwers the fon, "but if the owner of it had been in bed, as I am, he had not loft it."

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