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 24          THE SORROW-DISPERSER.

animadvert on our government for bestowing such a trifle, which did not cost them three francs.' 'That is true, to be sure," replied the hero, 'it did not cost the English government three francs, but it cost the French a Napoleon.' An American physician announces that he has changed his residence to the neighbourhood of the churchyard, which he hopes may prove a convenience to his numerous patients.  'What is light?" asked a schoolmaster of the booby of a class. 'A sovereign that isn't full weight is light,' was the prompt reply. A forward young lady was walking one morning on the Steyne, at Brighton, when she encountered a facetious friend. 'You see, Mr Debenham,' said she, 'I am come out to get a little sun and air.' 'I think, madam, you had better get a little husband first,' was the reply. There is a man so absent that he mistook his wife for a pair of bellows, and alleged his thorough conviction of the illusion, by her always blowing him up instead of the fire. Can you spell blind pig with two letters! Why P G, to be sure; that's a pig without an I, isn't it? Zachariah Macaulay had a servant whom he purchased at Sierra Leon. One morning, as Cudjoe was lying in bed longer than usual, his master called out to him, and asked him what he was about? 'I am doing some head work, massa.' Head works--what is that? asked Zachariah. 'Why, massa," continued Cudjoe, 'suppose three crow on dat tree, and massa fire, and kill one, how many left?' 'Two, of course,' observed Zachariah. 'No, massa, wrong dere,' replied Cudjoe, shewing his teeth, 'de other two fly away.' 6