Sportsman. "I can assure you, what with the rent of the moor, and my expenses, and 'what not,' the birds have cost me—ah—a sovereign apiece!!"

Keeper. "A' weel, sir! 'Deed it's a maircy ye didna kill na mair o' 'em!!"


CANDID

Sportsman. "Boy, you've been at this whiskey!"

Boy (who has brought the luncheon-basket). "Na! The cooark wadna come oot!"