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such questions as suggested themselves to his mind, one day desired a young urchin to tell him who Jesse was? when the boy briskly replied, The Flower of Dunblane, sir.' A sea-captain in this vicinity brought home a sable African, who had never before seen such a thing as ice. One morning Sambo came in with a large piece, exclaiming--'O, massa, see what a big piece of glass me found.' 'So you have,' replied the facetious mariner, 'but it's wet; take it to the fire and dry it.' Down went Sambo to the kitchen fire, but soon returned with his eyes vastly dilated, and great astonishment otherwise depicted on his countenance, vociferating, 'Why, massa, such glass I neber did see; the more I dries it, the more it grows wet.' A dashing foreman to a Glasgow tailor, dining in a mixed company, wished to impress those present with the immense importance of his services to his employer. Though I say it, that should not say it,' quoth snip, 'if it was not for me, my master could not carry on his business.' 'I can very well believe you,' said one of the party; 'I never yet heard of a tailor who could carry on his business without his goose.' When the great fire took place in London, a gentleman remarked to his friend that it was in consequence of gluttony; and as a proof of his assertion, he stated, that it commenced at Pye Corner and ended at Pudding Lane. A gentleman of Cork ordered his man to call him up at six o'clock; but he awoke him at four. Being asked the reason, he replied--I came to tell you that you have two hours to sleep. A Frenchman meeting an English soldier with a Waterloo medal, began sneeringly to