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( 18 ) That's a bull, ſaid the other. By Jaſus, ſaid he, then I have won the wager, for you have made the bull and not me.

51. From a late Clonmell Journal.-Ron away laſt night, my wife, Bridget Coole, ſhe is a tight neat body and has one leg; ſhe was ſeen riding behind the prieſt of the pariſh through Fernov; and as we never were married I will pay no debt ſhe does not contract: ſhe liſp with one tooth, and is always talking about fairies, and is of no uſe but to the owner.- Signed. PHELIM COOLE.

52. Theophilus Cibber, who was very extravagant; one day aſked a hundred pounds from his father, to clear his ſcores: Zounds ſir! ſaid old Colly, can't you live upon your ſalary? When I was your age I never ſpent any of my father's money:-But I am ſure, Sir, you have ſpent many hundred pounds of my father's money replied Theophilus.-This retort had its effect.

53. The following ſtory was related by the late George Selwyn:-Two friends who had not ſeen each other for a long while met one day by accident; How do you do? ſaid the one. But ſo and ſo, replied the other; and yet I was married ſince you and I were together.-That is good news.-Not very good, for it was my lot to chooſe a termagant.- It is a pity-I hardly think it ſo; for ſhe brought me two thouſand pounds.-Well, that is a comfort.- Not ſo much for, with her fortune, I purchaſed a quantity of ſheep and they are all dead.-That is diſtreſſing-Not ſo diſtreſſing as you may imagine; for by the tale of their ſkins; got more than the ſheep coſt me.-In that eaſe you are indemnified.-By no means, for my houſe and all my money, have been deſtroyed by fire.-Alas! that was a dreadful miſfortune? Faith, not ſo dreadful, for my termagant wife and my houſe were burnt together.