“If everyone in the world was as dishonest as you are,” remarked an Irish judge, as he addressed a swindler before him; “I don’t know what would become of the rest of us.”
“It’s thrue,” said Paddy to Dennis one day, “it wor a grand soight. But whoile ye’re standin’ sit down, an’ Oi’ll tell ye all about it.”
MIKE’S PRECAUTION.
Mike—“Begorra, an’ I had to go thru the woods the other night where Casey was murdered last year an’ that they say is haunted, an’, bedad, I walked backward the whole way.”
Pat—“An’ what for wuz we after doin’ that?”
Mike—“Faith, man, so that I could see if anything wuz comin’ up behind me.”