HIS OWN BUSINESS.

Uncle Sam. "IF I WEREN'T SO PREOCCUPIED WITH IRELAND I MIGHT BE TEMPTED TO GIVE MYSELF A MANDATE FOR THIS."


Magistrate (to incorrigible vagrant on his thirteenth appearance). "I'm tired of seeing you, and don't know whether to send you to gaol or the workhouse."

Vagrant. "Make it gaol, my lud, as there you do get a room to yerself, whereas in the work'us you never know who you rub shoulders with."