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he received for his insolence a severe ducking: When one who standing by, said, that he might now with the greatest propriety be called a Diving Bell.

The name of one Mr. Virtue having appeared among the Bankrupts in the Gazette, the following Lines were composed on the occasion. The times are out of joint indeed,, And must as bad be hail'd:    Sure ev'ry moral mind must bleed, Since Virtue's self has fail'd.

A gentleman being about to leave London, met an intimate friend, who said jocularly to him, When do you pack up, Your honour? He replied, My Honour. Sir, being perfectly portable, I shall not pack it up at all, but carry it with me.

Two persons arguing respecting a Mr. "Thompson, and a Mr. Collins, both very niggardly men; one of then said, Mr Collins is a very near man. Ah! said the other, but Mr Thompson is nearer. How can that be, retorted the other, when he lives at a town twenty miles distant, and Mr. Collins only at the next door?

On the first day of Michaelmas term; 1800, 2 Jew named Cohen, justified bail in the Court of Common. Pleas. The opposing Counzel, Mr. Serjeant Runnington, thus proceeded to examine him: What is your Christian name?-- Christian name! I have none.--I mean the name that distinguished you from the rest of your family. You are not all numbered, I suppose, as Aminidab the