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 I winna, said she, unless you will first repeat the Creed and the Lord's Prayer, Having no alternative, he was forced to accede to the pions woman's terms.

Two English gentlemen, some time ago, visited the field of Bannockburn, so celebrated for the total defeat of the English army, by Robert the Bruce, with an army of Scottish heroes, not one fourth their number. A sensible countryman pointed out the positions of both armies, the stone where the Bruce's standard was fixed during the battle, &c.——— Highly satisfied with his attention, the gentlemen, on leaving him, pressed his acceptance of a crown-piece,———Na, na, said the honest man, returning the money, keep your crown-piece-the English have paid dear enough already for seeing the field of Bannockburn.

Judge Toler, afterwards Lord Norbury, whose severity was at one time proverbial, was at a public dinner with Curran the celebrated Irish lawyer. Toler observing Curran carving a piece of corned beef, told him, if it was hung beef he would try it. If you try it, my Lord, replied Curran, I am sure it will be hung: