"A merry heart doeth good like a medicine."
Aunt Dinah: "How long hab you dis set of dishes?"
Mother Hubbard: "Let me see; I've had 'em—four girls and a half."
Mike: "Do ye believe in the recall of judges, Pat?"
Pat: "That I do not. The last time I was up before his honor he sez: 'I recall that face.—Sixty days.' I'm agin the recall of judges." Life.
Bishop: "Well, Mr. Jones, how do you like your preacher?"
Deacon Jones: "He's de best I eber seed, to take de Bible apart; but he dun' no how to put it to gedder agen."
A Swede, that had not yet had time to learn our language was accused of throwing a stone through a plate glass window. When the lawyers failed to enable him to describe it's size the judge asked:
"Was it as big as my fist?"
"It ben bigger," the Swede replied.