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 respectfully treated by his thee-and-thoning, one of them with a stern countenance, asked him-—Pray, Sir, do you know for what we sit here? Yea, replied Nathan, I do——— some of you for a thousand, and others for seventeen hundred and fifty pounds a year. Comparisons of Drunkenness———A man is said to be as drunk as an owl, when he can- not see———as drunk as a sow, when he wallows in the dirt———as drunk as a beggar, when he is very impudent———as drunk as the devil, when he is inclined to mischief, and———as drunk as a Lord, when he is every thing that is bad.

Walking Stewart, having given an account of his being cast away on an unknown coast, thus expresses himself: “After walking a considerable way up the country, we saw, to our inexpressible satisfaction, a man hanging on a gibbet. This delight afforded us by this cheering sight is inconceivable, for it convinced us that we were in a civilized country!”

When the Earl of Clancartie was Captain of a man of war, he lost his Chaplain. The First Lieutenant, a Scotchman, announced his death to his Lordship, adding,