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,