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 (15) directly contrary to the act of parliament, you are but two ſtories high, and your balcony hangs over your houſe of office.

A certain boy was boaſting in company that he had every ſenſe in perfection. No, faid one who was by. there is one you are entirely without and that is common ſenſe.

Dr. Tadloc, who was a man of a very enormous ſize. happening to go thump. thump, With his great legs through the ſtreet where the haviours were at work in the middle of July, They laid down their rammers. Ah! God bleſs ow, maſter, cries one of them, it is very kind of you to come this way; it ſaves us a great deal of trouble this hot weather.

Three or four roguiſh ſcholars walking out one day from the Univerſity of Oxford, eſpied a poor fellow by Abingdon asleep in a ditch, with an aſs by him, laden with earthen ware, holding the bridle in his hand : ſaid one of the scholars to the reſt, if you will aſſiſt me, I'll help you to a little money, for you know we are bare at preſent. So they conſented. Why fen, ſaid he, we'll go and ſell this fellow's aſs at Abingdon, as the fair is tomorrow. therefore do you take the paniers off, and put them upon my back, and the bridle over my head, and then lead the aſs to the market, and let be alone with the old man. This being done accordingly, in a little time after the poor man waking, was ſrangely ſurpriſed to ſee his asſ tgus ſtrangely metamorphoſed. O for God's sake! ſaid the ſcholar, do take this bridle out of my mouth, and this load off my back. Rounds! how came you there? replied the old