Some one jocularly observed to the Marquis Wellesley, that, in his arrangements of the ministry, his brother, the Duke, had thrown him overboard. "Yes," said the Marquis; "but I trust I have strength enough to swim to the other side."
MDXLII.—A CHOICE OF EVILS.
One asked his friend, why he married so little a wife? "Why," said he, "I thought you knew, that of all evils we should choose the least."
MDXLIII.—RESTING HERSELF.
A laborer's daughter, who had been in service from her childhood, would frequently wish to be married, that, as she expressed herself, she might rest her bones. Some time afterwards she got married, and her late mistress meeting her, asked her, "Well, Mary, have you rested your bones yet?"—"Yes, indeed," replied she, with a sigh, "I have rested my jaw-bones."
MDXLIV.—A CHARTIST NOT A LEVELLER.
A chartist at a public meeting, in the course of a speech about the "five points" of the charter, exclaimed, "Gentlemen, is not one man as good as another?"—"Uv course he is," shouted an excited Irish chartist, "and a great deal betther."
MDXLV.—DEATH AND DR. BOLUS.
"My dart," cried Death, "I cannot find,
So now I'm quite at sea."
Quoth Dr. Bolus, "Never mind,—
There, take this recipe."