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 6 to the ſtationer's and he will read it for you. Two Oxford ſcholars meeting on the road with a Yorkſhire Oftler, they fell to banter- ing him; and told him, that they would prove him to be a horſe or an aſs. Well, ſaid the oftler, I can prove your ſaddle to be a mule. A mule ſaid one of them how can that be ? Becauſe, ſaid the oftler, it is ſomething between a horſe and an aſs.

An Engliſh gentleman happening to be in Precknock ſhire, uſed ſometimes to di- vert himſelf with ſhooting, but being ſuſ- pected not to be qualified, was ſent for by one of the little welſh Juſtices. His Wor- ſhip told him, unleſs he could produce his qualification, he ſhould not allow him to ſhoot there, and he had too little manors. Yes ſir, ſaid the gentleman any one may per- ceive that. Perceive what? cried the Welſh- man. That you have too little manners, cried the other.

The chaplain's boy of a man of war being ſent out of his own ſhip on an er- rand to another, the boys were conferring notes about their manner of living. How