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with ready-money : And it is as ancient as the Siege of Troy, for Homer was a Ballad-singer.

Q. What is the surest method for one to become both rich and respectable?

A. To be sober and industrious.

Q. What is the best method of over- coming the argument of a positive person.

A. Either to say with him, or give him no answer.

Q. What is the wisest course to be followed by a man who has a brawling and a scolding wife ?

A. To keep silent, and then she’ll bite her own lingers with anger.

The end of the Cariches.