HERE was a Presbyterian minister who married a couple of his rustic parishioners, and had felt exceedingly disconcerted, on his asking the bridegroom if he were willing to take the woman for his wedded wife, by his scratching his head and saying, "Ay, I'm wullin'; but I'd rather hae her sister."
J. C. Young, Diary.
HE prospect's always fine in the Prospectus!
J. R. Planché, Songs and Poems.
NIMALS are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
George Eliot, Mr. Gilfil's Love Story.
HERE is a tact,
Which keeps, when pushed by questions rather rough,
A lady always distant from the fact:
The charming creatures lie with such a grace,
There's nothing so becoming to the face.