DLVI.—CONFIDENCE.
The first time Jerrold saw a celebrated song-writer, the latter said to him:—
"Youngster, have you sufficient confidence in me to lend me a guinea?"
Jerrold.—"O yes; I've all the confidence, but I have n't the guinea."
DLVII.—LADY ANNE.
At Portsmouth, during the representation of Richard the Third, on Richard exclaiming, "O, take more pity in thine eyes, and see him here," Miss White, who was in Lady Anne, indignantly exclaimed, "Would they were battle-axes (basilisks) to strike thee dead."
DLVIII.—NICE LANGUAGE.
A man being tried for sheep-stealing, evidence was given that he had been seen washing tripe. The counsel for the Crown, in examining the witness, observed with ill-timed indelicacy, "He was washing bowels?"—"Yes, sir."—"The bowels of an animal, I suppose?"—"Yes, sir." The counsel sits down. Justice Maule: "Pray, was it a wren's stomach?"
DLIX.—UNPOETICAL REPLY.
A hardy seaman, who had escaped one of the recent shipwrecks upon our coast, was asked by a good lady how he felt when the waves broke over him. He replied, "Wet, ma'am,—very wet."