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loss cannot do him much harm; but as it will look very cowardly in me to have been robbed without making any defence, I should take it                 kindly of you just to fire a pistol through my                  coat.' 'With all my heart,' said the highway- man, 'where will you have the ball?' 'Here, said the rider, just by the side of the button. The unthinking highwayman was as good as his word; but the moment he fired, the rider knocked him off his horse, and, with the assistance of a                 traveller, who just at that time arrived, lodged the highwayman in Winchester gaol.

31. Two Irish labourers being at the exe- cution of three malefactors on the new scaffold before Newgate, one says to the other, 'Arral Pat, now,! but is there any difference between being hanged here and being hanged in chains 'No honey!' replied he, no great difference only one hangs about an hour, and the other hangs all the days of his life.'

35. A commercial traveller one day at a                 country inn, was boasting somewhat extrava- gantly of the very extensive nature of the transactions in which he had the honour to be                 concerned. Amongst other proofs of the truth of his representations, he stated to his fellow travellers, that "his house" paid upwards of                 £300 per annum for the article of writing-in only, to be used in their counting-house, and other offices! “Oh!" replies a traveller in a                 different line of business, “ that's a mere flea