Art. 2.—By helping the dish next yourself (should you not dine à la Russe) you acquire a right to be helped to any other dish on the table.
Art. 3.—A carver must be very unskilful who cannot, by a little sleight-of-hand, smuggle aside the best morsel of a dish, and thus, when serving himself last, serve himself also the best.
Art. 4.—Your host's offers are sometimes insincere when they refer to some magnificent dish yet uncut. In such cases you should refuse feebly for yourself, but accept on behalf of the lady next you,—merely out of politeness to her.
Art. 5.—The thigh of all birds, boiled, is preferable to the wing: never lose sight of this in helping ignoramuses or ladies.
INDEX.
- A. I, [33]
- Abbey Church at Bath, The, [244]
- Bed of—Where?, [238]
- Abernethy, Mr., [77]
- Above Proof, [297]
- Absent Man, An, [116]
- Absurdly Logical, [319]
- Acceptable Deprivation, An, [201]
- Accommodating, [213]
- Accommodating Physician, An, [180]
- Accommodating Principles, [153]
- Accurate Description, [201]
- Acres and Wiseacres, [355]
- Act of Justice, An, [147]
- Actor, [222]
- Advantageous Tithe, An, [255]
- Advertisement, Extraordinary, [88]
- Advice Gratis, [160]
- Advice to a Dramatist, [199]
- Advice to the Young, [138]
- Affectation, [98]
- Affectionate Hint, An, [344]
- Aged Young Lady, The, [235]
- Agreeable and not Complimentary, [71]
- Agreeable Practice, An, [248]
- Agricultural Experiences, [184]
- Alere Flamman, [252]
- A-Liquid, [140]
- Allegorical Representation, [310]
- All the Difference, [5], [367]
- All the Same, [314]
- Almanac-makers, [159]
- Alone in his Glory, [14]
- Always the Better, [336]
- Amende Honorable, The, [310]
- American Penance, [217]
- Ample Apology, An, [356]
- Anecdote, An, [86]
- Anglo-French Alliance, The, [50]
- Angry Ocean, The, [81]
- Answered at Once, [288]
- Answering her According to her Folly, [345]
- Anticipated Calamity, An, [349]
- Anticipation, [110]
- Any Change for the Better, [220]
- Any Port in a Storm, [57]
- Apish Resemblance, An, [322]
- Apt Reproof, An, [307]
- Arcadia, [24]
- Arcadian, An, [128]
- Architectural Pun, An, [61]
- Argument, An, [125]
- Artificial Heat, [28]
- Artistic Touch, An, [171]
- As Black as he could be painted, [337]
- Aspiring Poverty, [345]
- Assurance and Insurance, [228]
- As You Like It, [87]
- At his Fingers' Ends, [106]
- Attending to a Wish, [169]
- Attic Jest, An [69]
- Attired to Tire, [343]
- Audley, The Late Lord, [130]
- Auricular Confession, [227]
- Awkward Orthography, [298]
- "Aye! There's the Rub", [93]
- Back-handed Hit, A, [209]
- Bacon, [138]
- Bad Bargain, A, [131]
- Bad Company, [166]
- Bad Crop, A, [18], [58]
- Bad Customer, A, [96]
- Bad End, A, [153]
- Bad Example, A, [1]
- Bad Habit, [136]
- Bad Harvest, A, [23]
- Bad Judge, A, [287]
- Bad Label, A, [92]
- Bad Lot, A, [182]
- Bad Medium, A, [217]
- Bad Pen, A, [72]
- Bad Preacher, A, [226]
- Bad Shot, A, [12]
- Bad Sport, [146]
- Balance, A, [233]
- Balancing Accounts, [66]
- Banker's Check, A, [17]
- Barber Shaved by a Lawyer, [305]
- Bark and Bite, [231]
- Barry's Powers of Pleasing, [34]
- Base Joke, A, [347]
- Base One, A, [97]
- Bearable Pun, A, [358]
- Bear and Van, [16]
- Bearding a Barber, [2]
- Benefit of Competition, [212]
- Best Judge, The, [110]
- Best Wine, The, [300]
- Better Known than Trusted, [193]
- Betting, [155]
- Bewick, the Engraver, [194]
- Bill Paid in Full, [228]
- Billy Brown and the Counsellor, [50]
- Birth of a Prince, The, [178]
- Bishop and Churchwarden, A, [71]
- Bishop and his Portmanteau, The, [55]
- Bit of Moonshine, A, [335]
- Black and White, [19]
- Black Joke, A, [159]
- Black Letter, [101]
- Black Oils, [18]
- Blowing a Nose, [55]
- Book Case, A, [70]
- Boswell's "Life of Johnson", [154]
- Braham and Kenney, [237]
- Bred on the Boards, [162]
- Brevity, [81]
- Brevity of Charity, [215]
- Brief Correspondence, [179]
- "Brief Let It Be", [210]
- Bright and Sharp, [63]
- Bright Rejoinder, A, [346]
- Bringing his Man Down, [245]
- Broad-brim Hint, A, [81]
- Broad Hint, A, [85], [165]
- Broad-Sheet Hint, A, [75]
- Broken Head, A, [98]
- Brotherly Love, [46], [300]
- Brutal Affections, [67]
- Budget of Blunders, A, [141]
- Buried Worth, [56]
- Burke and Fox, [258]
- Burke's Tediousness, [270]
- Business and Pleasure, [326]
- Busy Bodies, [124]
- But one Good Translation, [358]
- Byron Libellous, [342]
- Cabal, A, [31]
- Calculation, [105]
- Calculation, A, [265]
- Caledonian Comfort, [99]
- Calf's Head Surprised, [25]
- Caliban's Looking-glass, [51]
- Calumny, [220]
- Cambridge Etiquette, [76]
- Candid Counsel, A, [156]
- Candid on both Sides, [222]
- Candle and Lantern, The, [125]
- Candor, [73]
- Canine Poetry, [169]
- Canning's Parasites, [71]
- Capital Joke, A, [56]
- Capital Letter, A, [14]
- Cap This, [26]
- Carrots Classically Considered, [222]
- Cart before the Horse, The, [60]
- Case of Necessity, A, [189]
- Cash Payments, [149]
- Catching him Up, [70]
- Cause and Effect, [226], [344]
- Cause of Absence, [40]
- Cause, The, [158]
- Cautious Lover, A, [108]
- Celestial Vision, A, [351]
- Certain Crop, A, [208]
- Certainly not Asleep, [109]
- Certainty, A, [83]
- Challenging a Jury, [107]
- Change for a Guinea, [337]
- Change for the Better, A, [197]
- Changing Hats, [280]
- Changing his Coat, [3]
- Changing his Line, [39]
- Characteristics, [237]
- Charitable Wit, [195]
- Charity and Inconvenience, [326]
- Charity begins at Home, [312]
- Charles, Duke of Norfolk, [271]
- Charles II. and Milton, [192]
- Chartist not a Leveller, A, [334]
- Chatham, Lord, [263]
- Cheap at the Money, [209]
- Cheap Cure, A, [17]
- Cheap Watch, A, [168]
- Check to the King, [22]
- Cheese and Dessert, [21]
- Chemical Oddity, [322]
- Chesterfield, Lord, [37]
- Chin-Surveying, [280]
- Choice of Evils, A, [334]
- Choice Spirits, [180]
- Church in the Way, The, [246]
- City Glutton, [358]
- City Love, [36]
- City Varnish, A, [61]
- Claim on the Country, A, [249]
- Classical Wit, [333]
- Claw and Claw, [54]
- Clear Case, A, [122]
- Clear the Court, [118]
- Clearing Emigrants, [272]
- Clerical Wit, [95]
- Clever Dog, A, [47]
- Climax, A, [19], [341]
- Clonmel, Lord, [172]
- Close Escape, A, [187]
- Close Translation, A, [317]
- Closer, A, [313]
- Coat-of-Arms, A, [211]
- Cockney Epigram, A, [36]
- Cold Comfort, [132]
- "Cold" Compliment, A, [73]
- Coleridge and Thelwall, [275]
- College Bell! The, [109]
- Collins, The late Mr., [24]
- Colonial Breweries, [313]
- Colorable Excuse, A, [179]
- Colorable Resemblance, A, [145]
- Come of Age, [9]
- Comedian and a Lawyer, A, [190]
- Common Case, A, [64]
- Common Politeness, [195]
- Common Want, A, [219]
- Comparative Virtue, [357]
- Comparison, A, [152], [234], [273]
- Comparisons are Odious, [2]
- Complimentary, [4], [362]
- Compliment, Elegant, [32]
- Compliment Ill-received, A, [78]
- Computation, [22]
- Conceited, but not Seated, [201]
- Con-cider-ate, [139]
- Concurrent Events, [134]
- Conditional Agreement, [315]
- Confidence, [103], [120]
- Confidence—taken from the French, [193]
- Confirmed Invalid, A, [1]
- Congratulation to One who Curled His Hair, [85]
- Conjugal Caution, [8]
- Conjugal Conclusion, A, [282]
- Connoisseur, The, [7]
- Connubial Compliment, A, [365]
- Conservative Logic, [300]
- Considerable Latitude, [44]
- Considerate Mayor, A, [292]
- Considerate Son, A, [89]
- Consistency, [179]
- Constancy, [245]
- Constitutional Pun, A, [4]
- Contraband Scotchman, [67]
- Convenient Theory, A, [358]
- Convert, A, [4]
- Cooke's Explanation of the Family Plate, [158]
- Cooking his Goose, [315]
- Cool as a Cucumber, [356]
- Cool Hand, A, [85]
- Cool Proposition, A, [299]
- Cool Retort, [208]
- Corporation Politeness, [219]
- Corruptly Incorruptible, [172]
- Couleur de Rose, [58]
- Coulson, Sir Thomas, [232]
- Credit, [269]
- Critical Politeness, [30]
- Criticising a Statue, [152]
- Critics, [60]
- Cromwell, [228]
- Cruel Case, A, [229]
- Cruel Suggestion, [68]
- Cup and Saucer, [200]
- Cut and Come Again, [51]
- Cut Direct, The, [124]
- Cut Infernal, The, [103]
- Cutting, [360]
- Cutting an Acquaintance, [253]
- Cutting his Coat, [57]
- Cutting off the Supplies, [310]
- Cutting on both Sides, [69]