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 19 A lawyer being ſick, made his will, and save all his eſtates to fools and madmen; being aſked the reaſon for ſo doing, he an- wered, From ſuch I had them, and to ſuch give them again.

An Iriſh gentleman being with ſome ladies in a nobleman's garden, where was large iron roller, told them he thought c was the largeſt iron rolling ſtone that he ever ſaw.

Two Iriſhmen having travelled on foot from Cheſter to Barnet, were much tired and fatigued with their journey, and the more ſo, when they were told that they had ſtill ten miles to London. By my ſhoul & St. Patrick, cries one of them, it is but five miles a piece, let's walk on.

Gun Jones, who had made a handſome fortune from a very mean beginning, happening to have ſome words with a perſon who had known him for ſome time, was aſked by the other, How he could