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relish the Entertainment which the Austrians mean to give them at their Inn.

An Irishman who was present at the fight between Crib and the Black, observed, that altho' the latter hat got a severe beating; he by no means thought him faint-hearted, as he never once changed his Colour.

A Gentleman seeing the town-crier of Bristol, one market day, standing unemployed, asked him the reason.--Oh, replied he, cannot Cry to-day, my wife is dead!

A partridge pye, said the gentleman, eating part of one, beats a pigeon pye all to pieces. Then said another. You never put both at once on the same table. Why not? Because it must prove the destruction of the poor pigeon pye. -                            The Monk and Jew --A Tale. - To make new converts truly blest; A recipe--Probatum est. Stern winter. clad in frost and snow, Had now forbad the streams to flow; And skaited peasants swiftly glide, Like swallows, o'er the slippery tide: When Mordecai (upon whose face The synagogue you plain might trace;) Fortune with smiles deceitful bore To a curst hole, but late skinn'd o'er; Down plumps the Jew; but in a trice, Rising, he caught the friendly ice: He gasp'd; he yell'd a hideous cry;