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 Laugh and be Fat!

OR, THE

BUDGET OF WIT. —

A Gentleman recently married, was enjoying, with his fair one, an evening walk along the beach at Musselburgh. That moment a ves- sel had left the harbour, bound for a foreign port: ‘ Pray, my clear, says the lady, what is the dif- ference between exported and transported.’— Were you, my love, returned the gentleman, a board that vessel,you would be exported, and I would be transported.

A London lady was on a visit to a friend in Edinburgh, who Was at great pains to point out to her all the deligfhtful prospects of that roman- tic city: The stranger, assuming an air of con- sequence, generally answered. ’Tis very well for a Scotch view!' One delightful evening, walking along Queen Street, while the autumnal moon shone with an uncommon lustre, her friend could not help expressing her admiration of the resplendent orb of night, when the Cockney drily remarked, ‘ It is very well for a Scotch moon !’

Two English gentlemen, some time ago, visit-