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6 Some time ago a member of Parliment applied to the post-office, to know why some of his franks fa been charged. The answer was: We supposed si they were not of your writing. The hand is not the same. Why, pot precisely the same, but the truth is I happened to be a little tipsy when I wrote them.- Then sir, will you be so good in future as to write drunk, when you make free.

A young lady going into a barrack room at For George, saw an officer toasting a slice of bread on the point of his Sword: On which she exclaimed I think, Sir, you have got the staff of life on the poin of death.

Dear Jackson passing one morning through Christ Church quadrangle, met some under graduates, wh walked along without capping you know who I am No, sit How long have yet been in College Eigh days, sir.-Oh, very well, said the Dean walking away, pupies don't open their eyes till the ninth day Whilst the immortal Garrick was one night per forming the part of Hamlet, (a character in which that immitable actor dieplayed an exquisite knowledg of nature) and when he was arrived at one of the mos affecting scenes in that tragedy-the audience, al mute Attention,-when even a pin might be heard falling to the ground-all at once, to the astonishmen of the spectators, Garrick was seen to burst out into a violent fit of laughter, and ran suddenly off th stage: In a moment all the players followed. Th audience, amazed at the strangeness of this conduct cast their eyes around every corner of the house when they immediately discovered the cause of Garrick merriment. A jolly round faced butcher wa scated in front of one of the high boxes, wiping hi