Qu.—Iz thare ennything that iz proof against ridikule?
Ans.—Nothing that i kno ov, except fashion, and musketoze.
Qu.—Iz it proper tew speak tew a lady acquaintance in the street fust, or last?
Ans.—I should think fust, for they tell me that wimmin will hav the last word.
Qu.—Who are the only real temperance folks in the world?
Ans.—The Greenlanders, whiskey never thaws out thare.
Qu.—Iz it proper under enny circumstances tew use the word Damn as a tonick?
Ans.—It might possibly be proper, in speaking ov a river that waz dry eleven months in the year, to state carefully that it wasn’t worth a dam.
Qu.—What iz one ov the principal dutys we owe to our country?
Ans.—The customs.