“My dear Walpole: You are too late! Sir Robert had a sister Lucy, and she did marry a Jacobite.”
So in defiance of history, the play “Walpole” was written.
“Here’s a curious item, Joshua!” exclaimed Mrs. Lemington, spreading out the Billeville “Mirror” in her ample lap. “The Nellie E. Williams of Gloucester reports that she saw two whales, a cow and a calf, floating off Cape Cod the day before yesterday.”
“Well, ma,” replied old Mr. Lemington, “what’s the matter with that?”
“Why, it’s all right about the two whales, Joshua, but what bothers me is how the cow and the calf got way out there.”
A Congressman once declared in an address to the House:
“As Daniel Webster says in his great dictionary—”
“It was Noah who wrote the dictionary,” whispered a colleague, who sat at the next desk.