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( 22 ) evidence, aſked what diſtance he was from the parties when he ſaw the defendant ſtrike the plaintiff? The carpenter anſwered. "Juſt four feet five inches and a half" "Pr'ythee fellow," ſays the counſel, "how is it poſſible you can be ſo very exact as to the diſtance?" I thought, perhaps (replied he) that ſome fool or other might aſk me, ſo I meaſured it.

An arch foot boy, who was bringing to the table a calf's head, between the kitchen and the dining-room, pickt out one of its eyes and eat it; the gentleman who had got the eye that was left, miſſing the other, aſked the boy after it, who confeſſed his having taken it; but how do you do it, ſays the gentleman? juſt ſo, ſaid the boy, and ſnatching up the other from the gentleman's plate, ſwallowed it.

Frank Merryman, ſeeing one coming towards him where he ſtood, aſked who it was, and being told that it was Lord B, ſaid "I thought it was a lord, he looked ſo little like a gentleman."