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 A gentleman coming into a coffee-room one stormy night, said. He never saw such a wind in his life. Saw a wind, says a friend, I never heard of such a thing as seeing a wind; pray, what was it like? Like answered the Gentleman, like to have blown my hat off.

A young lady going into a barrack-room at Fort 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 point of death.

One day, Socrates, having for a long time endured his wife's brawling, went out of his house, and sat down before the door, to rid himself of her impertinence. The wo- man, enraged to find all her scolding unable to disturb his tranquillity, flung the contents of a chamber-pot on his head. Those that happened to see it, laughed heartily at poor Socrates; but this pbilosopher observed, smiling, "I thought, indeed, after so much thunder we should have rain."

A clergyman chose for his text the following words: "Which of you will go up with me to Ramoth-Gilead?” Then pausing, he again and again repeated the words, when