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these were all bibles ? No, Sir, answered one of the clerks, they are testaments.

A countryman very much marked with the small pox, applied to a justice of peace for re- dress in an affair where one of his neighbours had ill-treated him; but not explaining the business so clearly as the justice expected, Fellow, said he in a rage, I don’t know whether you were inoc- ulated for the small pox or not, but I am sure you have been for stupidity. Why, an’t please you, replied the man, perhaps I might, as you say, be inoculated for stupidity; but there was no occasion to perform that on your worship, for you seem to have had it in the natural way.

Two country attornies,overtaking a waggon er on the road, and thinking to be witty upon him, asked, why his fore horse was so fat, and the rest so lean ? The waggoner knowing them, answered, that his fore horse was a lawyer, and the rest were his clients.

An Irishman, a short time since, bade an ex- traordinary price for an alarm clock, and gave as a reason, that, as he loved to rise early, he had now nothing to do but pull the string, and he would wake himself.

A countryman, at Burry assizes, was indicted and arraigned for stealing a goose; but the ac- cusation was false, for he brought a neighbour of his, who sware positively, that he remembered what very goose in his possession ever since it was gosling. An Irishman, who was a prisoner for