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4              THE SORROW-DISPERSER.

walk abroad with his hat off?' Why, because he wants a little fresh hair, to be sure. An Irish tailor, making a gentleman's coat and vest too small, was ordered to take them home and let them out. Some days after, the gentleman, inquiring for his garments, was told by the ninth part of an Irishman, that the clothes happening to fit a countryman of his, he had let them out at a shilling per week. The Young Woman's Consolation.—A village pastor was examining his parishioners in their Catechism. The first question in the Heidelbergh Catechism is this--'What is thy only consolation in life and death?' A young girl to whom the pastor put this question laughed, and would not answer. The priest insisted. Well, then, said she, at length, 'if I must tell you, it is the young shoemaker that lives in the Rue Agneaux.' Vy is a red-hot poker like a celebrated poet? Because it Burns. A Pertinent Query--Mrs V---, notwithstanding her professional powers, displays 'so little knowledge on general subjects, as to have obtained the sobriquet of the inspired simpleton.' She had the misfortune to meet an accident in travelling, which accelerated her accouchement, and she became the mother of a seven months' child. She was weeping, and exclaimed that the infant would not live, when Mr W---consoled her, by assuring her, that his own grandfather was a seven months' child. 'Very likely, my dear,' said the weeping beauty, but did he live? It is said that her Majesty gives Prince Albert half a crown by day, and a sovereign at night.