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“Murphy,” said an employer the other morning to one of his workmen, “you came late this morning; the other men were an hour before you”— “Sure and I'll be even wit 'em to-night thin.”—"How, Murphy ?”—Why, fait, I'll quit an hour before 'em all sure!”

Logan on a market-day, in Kilmarnock, went into a tavern with a friend, and ordered some whisky.—The waiter, when he set down the measure, asked if they wished to have water along with the spirits? “Na” said the laird, “had ye no better try to tak' out the water that's in't already.

An oyster was opened at Point Comfort lately, which was so large that it took three men to