For then each lady’s prayers would be—
“O Lord, good Lord, deliver me.”
Expectancy
A clergyman with a cough preached recently to an irritated congregation at St. Patrick’s, Dublin. The next morning’s post brought him the following communication:
’Tis passing strange when we reflect,
And seems to beat creation,
That when “oration” we expect
We get “expect-oration.”
Keenness of Edge
As in smooth oil the razor best is whet,