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A servant lad lived many years with a clergyman, and his master took occasion to say “John, you have been a long time in my service; I dare say you will be able to preach a sermon as well as I.“ “Oh, no, Sir,” said John, “but many an inference I have drawn from yours.” “Well” said the clergyman, “I will give you a text out of Job, let me hear what you infer from it.- ‘And the asses snuffed up the east wind.’ “Well” replied John “the only inference, I can draw from this is, that it would be a long time before they would grow fat upon it.”

Leigh Hunt was asked by a lady at dessert, if he would not venture, on an orange. “Madam, I should be happy to do so, but I am afraid I should tumble off.”