Varieties.
Pun.—While the repairs were going on in State street, Boston, two gentlemen of the bar happening to meet, one said, “I think this looks like putting new cloth upon an old garment.” “I think so too,” replied the other; “but it will make the rent greater.”
Humor.—A number of years ago, an eccentric old gentleman, residing in a cottage in England, was greatly annoyed by noctural depredators, who broke the fences in his garden, in order to get at the good things contained therein. As he did not care so much for the loss of the fruit as the damage done to the enclosures, and as he was rather fond of witticisms, he had the following notice put up: “All thieves are in future to enter by the gate, which will be left open for the purpose.”
Has a Dog Wings?—“Father, has a dog got wings?”
“No, my son.”
“Well, I thought so—but mother told me, the other day, that as she was going along the road, a dog flew at her.”
Irish Wit.—An honest Hibernian, upon reading his physician’s bill, replied, that he had no objections to pay him for his medicines, but his visits he would return.