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 THE SORROW-DISPERSER. 19

A young lady asked a widow her opinion of matrimony. 'Oh, madam,' answered she, 'it would be a heavenly life, if the honeymoon would last always.' A justice of the peace, seeing a parson on a very stately horse, riding between Highgate and Hampstead, said to some gentlemen who were with him, 'Do you see what a beautiful horse that proud parson has got? I'll banter him a little. Doctor,' said he, 'you do not follow the example of your great Master, who was humbly content to ride upon an ass.' Why, really, sir,' replied the parson, 'the king has made so many asses justices, that an honest clergyman can hardly find one to ride, if he had a mind to it.' A tailor sent his bill to a lawyer for money; the lawyer bid the boy tell his master he was not running away, but very busy at the time. The boy came again and told him he must needs have the money. 'Did you tell your master,' said the lawyer, 'that I was not running away?'  'O yes, sir,' answered the boy, 'but he bade me give his compliments, and tell you that he was.' The junior counsel, who opened the cause of Count D'Eon, concluded as follows:--and we shall now call witnesses to prove that he is she. A very agreeable lady of the name of Riggs, being last season at Margate, in a house with six others, and only one gentleman to attend them; when, on regretting that there were not more of the male creation, says a sprightly lady, one of the party, 'if we complain of not being well manned, I am sure we are well rigged.' A sailor, half groggy, passing along the street