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 15 could the ſtays be wet if you took them into the coach with you? No, replied honeſt Teague, I know my place better I did not get into the coach, but rode behind as I al- ways uſed to do.

Two honeſt gentlemen who dealt in broom meeting one day in the ſtreet, one aſked the other how the devil he could afford to un- derſell them as he did, when he ſtole the ſtuff, and made the brooms himſelf? Why, you filly dog, replied the other, I ſteal them ready made.

A young gentlewoman who had married a wild ſpark that had run through a plentiful fortune, and was reduced into ſtraits, was innocently ſaying to him one day. My dear I want ſhifts ſadly. How can that be, replied he, when we make ſo many every day.

An Iriſhman having been obliged to live with his maſter ſome time in Scotland, when he came home again, ſome of his compa- nions aſked him how he liked Scotland? I will tell you now, ſaid he, I was ſick all the while I was there, and if I had lived there till this time, I had been dead a year ago.