MCLXXVI.—AN ADVANTAGEOUS TITHE.
A'Beckett once said, "It seems that anything likely to have an annual increase is liable to be tithed. Could not Lord S——, by virtue of this liability, contrive to get rid of a part of his stupidity?"
MCLXXVI I.—TRUTH versus POLITENESS.
At a tea-party, where some Cantabs were present, the lady who was presiding "Hoped the tea was good."—"Very good, indeed, madam," was the general reply, till it came to the turn of one of the Cantabs, who, between truth and politeness observed, "That the tea was excellent, but the water was smoky!"
MCLXXVIII.—A NEW VIEW.
Some people have a notion that villany ought to be exposed, though we must confess we think it a thing that deserves a hiding.
MCLXXIX.—THE ONE-SPUR HORSEMAN.
A student riding being jeered on the way for wearing but one spur, said that if one side of his horse went on, it was not likely that the other would stay behind.
[This is, no doubt, the original of the well-known passage in Hudibras,—
"For Hudibras wore but one spur;
As wisely knowing, could he stir
To active trot one side of 's horse," &c.]