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Yorkshire gentleman and his man, came to see Bristol, and being invited to dinner they walked with the gentleman and his wife into the garden, Sir says he, have you as large cabbages as these in Yorkshire? As these! eye. Sir, says he, if you were to see them they would make you stare. I have cabbages that would shelter a whole team of horses under them a winter. What dost thou say Ralph? Why truly, Sir. said he, 1 seldom come into the garden but I make wind-mill posts with the talks of them. Which made them wonder. Then they went into the dairy, and shewed him the cheeses, saying, they were reckoned the largest cheeses throughout England. Aye, Madam, except Yorkshire, I beseech you; why, mine are so big, that my dairy maid is forced to call the men with leavers to turn them. is this not true Ralph? Why indeed, Sir, I seldom into the dairy, but this I can say, that the whey of one of these cheeses will drive mill' for near three hours together. At which the gentleman and his wife both wondered mightily.

Then they shewed him a prospect of the mouse, and asked him. whether he did not think it very high ? Not at all to compare with our's Madam, I assure you; for say's he, I have a mouse in Yorkshire that is lo very high, that if man goes into the upper most room, and does not take a sixpenny loaf with him, he will be in