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to the vestry, he was asked if he was a relation of either of the parties? No, no,' replied Hodge, 'I am the bridegroom himself; but, having learned that Ciss has a tongue that, after marriage, will run faster than the clack of her master's mill, I am resolved to be off, so your reverence may marry her yourself, if you please.'

9. A lady of the name of King, who had increased her family annually for several years, was at a party where the circumstance was told to a               very facetious gentleman. He soon found out the Lady's husband, and though unknown to him, thus accosted him: 'Why, sir, you are like Bonaparte! The other, rather surprised, hasti- ly exclaimed, "How, so, sir?' 'Because,' re-               plied the wit, 'you make A NEW KING every                year.'

10. A surgeon being sent to a gentleman who had just received a slight wound in a duel, gave orders to his servant to go home with all possible speed, and fetch a certain plaister. The patient, turning a little pale, said, "Sir, I hope               there is no danger?' 'Yes, indeed is there,'                answered the surgeon; for if the fellow don't                make haste, the wound will heal before he return.'

11. A poor man was one day boasting of               his acquaintance in early life with a certain nobleman. 'And did his lordship really ever see you, to speak to you?' asked the person to