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bite to the business done by our house; do you know," he continued, "that during the last twelvemonths we have saved, in that article, alone, no less a sum than £2,000, by merely omitting the dots to our I's, and the crosses to                our T's!"

36. The clergyman of a country village re- prehending one of his parishioners for quarrelling with his wife so loudly and so frequently, as to                be a source of perpetual disturbance to the neighbourhood, in the course of his exhortation remarked, that the scriptures declared that man and wife were ONE. * Aye, that may be, sir,' answered Hodge, but if you were to go by                when me and my wife are at it, you'd think there were TWENTY of us!'

37. An English gentleman travelling through the Highlands, came to the inn of Letter Fin- lay, in the braes of Lochaber. He saw no per- son near the inn, and knocked at the door. No                answer. He knocked repeatedly with as little success: he then opened the door and walked in. On looking about, he saw a man lying on                a bed, whom he hailed thus: "Are there any                 Christians in this house?”  No," was the reply, “we are all Camerons."

38. An honest Highlander, walking along Holborn, heard a voice cry ROGUE, SCOT! ROGUE SCOT!' His northern blood fired at                the insult, he drew his broad sword, looking