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 16 A COLLECTION OF JESTS.

A number of French gentlemen, dining at a tavern in Germany, the maid, as ſhe took out the diſhes, let a rouſing fart; and her miſtreſs ſcolding her ſeverely for doing ſuch a thing in hearing of the gueſts. Phaw, nadam, ſays ſhe, you don't conſider that they are all French people, and don't underſtand German.

In Admiral Hawke's laſt engagement with the French, a ſailor on board one of the ſhips had a leg ſhot off, whereupon one of his meſs-mates took him down to the Surgeon, and took his leg off the deck and put it under his arm ; he was no ſooner brought down, but another of his meſs-mates began ſhaking his head, and telling him he was very ſorry he had loſt a leg. That is a damn'd lie. you ſon of a b--h, replied he, for I have got it under my arm.

A gentleman one day gave his ſervant a kick on the breech, upon which the fellow let a rouſing fart, his maſter was horribly offended, but the ſervant ſaid, Why, Sir, would you knock at the door, and have nobody anſwer you.

An Iriſhman at Cheſter, upon enquiring at his landlord how he could get to London, and being told he might go in the waggon, he replied, No, honey, that won't do, I am always ſea-ſick when I ride in a waggon.

A Schoolmaſter aſking one of his boys, in a ſharp winter morning, what was Latin for cold : the boy heſitated a little - What ſirrah, ſaid he, can't you tell ? Yes, yes, cried the boy, I have it at my finger-ends.

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