DCXIX.—EPIGRAM.
(On the sincerity of a certain prelate.)
—— ——'s discourses from his heart
Proceed, as everybody owns;
And thus they prove the poet's art,
Who says that "sermons are in stones."
DCXX.—CONCURRENT EVENTS.
A young fellow, very confident in his abilities, lamented one day that he had lost all his Greek. "I believe it happened at the same time, sir," said Dr. Johnson, "that I lost all my large estate in Yorkshire."
DCXXI.—A GOOD EXCUSE.
An attorney on being called to account for having acted unprofessionally in taking less than the usual fees from his client, pleaded that he had taken all the man had. He was thereupon honorably acquitted.
DCXXII.—SHORT AND SHARP.
"Why, Mr. B.," said a tall youth to a little person who was in company with half-a-dozen huge men, "I protest you are so very small I did not see you before."
"Very likely," replied the little gentleman; "I am like a sixpence among six copper pennies,—not easily perceived, but worth the whole of them."