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( 21 ) him ſafe among his gallipots, and the honeſt man got well home again, triumphing over inhumanity and avarice.

A chimney ſweeper's boy had juſt ſwept the chimney of a barber's ſhop in London, and while the boy was tying up his foot, ſome of the journeymen, who were at work in the ſhop, being inclined to uſe their wit on the poor lad, among other questions aſked him, what trade his father was? To which the boy very archly replied, "What trade? Why, my father was a barber, and I might have been a barber too; but to tell you the truth, i did not like ſuch a blackguard buſineſs"

A perſon aſking a foundling, who had been bred up by charity, but had roſe in life, who his parents were?"Do you remember, Sir," ſaid he to the queriſt "when you were born or begotten? If you do, I confeſs you have an aſtoniſhing memory."

A humorous fellow, a carpenter, being ſubpned as a witneſs on a trial for an aſſault; one of the counſel, who was very much given to browbeat the