“No idea.”
“Why, you asked him about his old complaint!”
“Pooh, pooh!” replied the nobleman, unconcernedly. “The old fellow’s well over sixty; bound to have something the matter with him.”
“Did you tip the waiter?”
“Yes, so to speak. I turned him down.”
Dr. Jowett of Oxford was a formidable wit. At a gathering at which he was present the talk ran upon the comparative gifts of two Balliol men who had been made respectively a judge and a bishop. Prof. Henry Smith, famous in his day for his brilliancy, pronounced the bishop to be the greater man of the two for this reason: “A judge, at the most, can only say, ‘You be hanged,’ whereas a bishop can say, ‘You be damned!’”
“Yes,” said Dr. Jowett, but if the judge says, “‘You be hanged,’ you _are_ hanged.”