Page:Brief relation of the adventures of Bamfylde Moore Carew (2).pdf/22

 22 ANECDOTES. AN IRISH WAGER. Two natives of the Emerald Isle, who were travelling together, finding their means run short and being in want of a “dhrop of the craythur, devised the ways and means for raising a supply Catching a frog in a ditch, one of them went or with it in advance of his companion, and stopping at the first public-house he came to, asked th landlord if he could tell what sort of an animal tha was? " What sort of an animal?" exclaimed Boni face, "why, you booby, it's a frog, to be sure. " Booby here, booby there," said Pat, “it strike me you're mistaken, for as 'cute as you think self, I'll bet you the price of a pint of whisky it's : mouse; and I'll lave it to the first traveller tha comes up to decide between us." Agreed," sai the landlord. Pat's confederate came up; an being required to say what sort of an animal it was after much examination and deliberation, declared it to be a mouse; and thus the landlord, in spit of the evidence of his senses, had to pay the wager

A SAD MISTAKE. A farm servant in Strathearn having intimate to his master that it was his intention to tak unto himself a wife," and being rather a bit of: favourite, was ordered to take a greybeard and g to Perth for a gallon of whisky, for the purpose a adding to the hilarity of the occasion. The la willingly did as ordered ; and when the marriage