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10       THE WICKEDEST MAN.

A clergyman, who wished to know whether the children of the parishoners understood their bibles, asked a lad that he one day found reading the Old Testament, who was the wickedest man ? Moses, to be sure, said the boy.—--Moses, exclaimed the parson, how can that be ? Why, said the lad, because he broke all the commandments at once!

NOT LOST BUT DROWNED.

A Leith merchant being on his usual ride to the south, came to the ford of a dark river, at the side of which a boy was diverting himself. The traveller addressed him as follows: —-- "Is this water deep ?” “Ay, gaen deep,” answered the boy. “ Is there ever any person lost here?” “No,” replied the boy, “ there was never any lost; there has been some drowned, but we aye get them again.”

THE RED NOSE. A West Indian, who had a remarkably fiery nose, having fallen asleep in his chair, a negro boy who was in waiting, observed a musquitto hovering round his face. Quasi eyed the insect very attentively, at last he saw him alight on his master’s nose, and immediately fly off. 'Ah! d--n your