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( 17 ) by the name of Blind Peter whoſe ſtand was always at the Globe-Coffee-Houſe door: Having found him out, he ſtopped to get his boots cleane ; which was no ſooner done that his Lordſhip aſked Peter to give him change for half-a-guinea Half-a-guinea! your honour ſaid the ragged wit, change for half-a-p from me! by St. George, you may as well aſk a Highlander for a knee-buckle! Hi Lordſhip was ſo well pleaſed, that he left him the bit of gold, and walked off.

49 A patriotic candidate applied to a yeoman of acertain county for his vote, promiſing to exert is influence to turn out the miniſtry and procure a freſh ſet. Then I wont vote for you ſaid the farmer.- Why not? ſaid the patriot; I thought you was a friend to your country? So I am replied the yeoman, and for that reaſon I am not for a change in the miniſtry. I know well enough now it is with my hogs: when I buy them in the lean, they would eat the devil and all, but when they have once pot a little fat the keeping of them is not near ſo expenſive, ſo that I am for keeping the preſent ſet, as they will devour much leſs than a new one.

30 An Hibernian officer being once in company with ſeveral who belonged to the ſame corps, one of them, in a laugh ſaid, he would lay a do n of claret, that the Iriſhman would make a bull before the evening was over Done, ſaid Terence. The wager was laid, and by way of puzzling him he was aſked how many bulls there were in that town Five, ſaid he: How do you make that out? ſaid the other ſaid he, there is the Black Bull in the market-place, and the Red Bull over the way then there is the Pied Bull, juſt by the bridge, and the White Sulle at the corner. They are but four ſaid the other. Why, arran ſaid he, there is the Dun cow, in the Butcher-row.- That's