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22 discourse you have given us!' said a delighted hearer once to the Rev. Rowland Hill, as he was coming out of the vestry after sermon: 'allow me to say, Sir—'O, say nothing on that subject,' replied the preacher, gravely:'I need no man to tell me that I preached a good sermon; the devil told me so already before I left the pulpit.' Here was, wit, and wisdom, and sanctity, all in one. There is nothing more dangerous for frail mortality than praise.

Rewarding Honesty. —A coloured servant sweeping out a bachelor's room found a sixpence on the carpet, which he carried to the owner. 'You may keep it for your honesty,' said he. A short time after, he missed his gold pencil-case, and inquired of his servant he had seen it. 'Yes, Sir,' was the reply. 'And what did you do with it?' 'Kept it for my honesty, Sir!' The old bachelor disappeared.

A Cute Lad.—A boy being rather fond of his bed, his father entered his room one morning, and told him the sun had been up these three hours. 'And so should I,' said the boy 'if I had as far to go as he has.'

A Smart Reply.—At a banquet; when solving, enigmas was one of the diversions, Alexander said to his courtiers, 'What is that which did not come last year, has not come this year and will not come next year?', A distressed officer starting up, said, "It must certainly be our arrears of pay.' The king was so diverted that he commanded him to be paid up, and also increased his salary.

The Pleasures of anticipation.—Martha, my dear,' said a loving husband to his spouse, who was several years his junior, 'what do you say to moving to the far West?' 'Oh, I am