Collected from
VARIOUS SOURCES
WILLIAM PATERSON
14 Clyde Street, Edinburgh
ENGLISH ANECDOTES.
LACHRYMAL CANALS.
A lady who kept a boarding-school some years ago, near London, wrote a novel, in which, among other extravagant expressions, occurred the following:—“His Lordship could not weep; the tale of sorrow had frozen his lachrymal canals.” A person to whom the fair author lent a copy of her work, returned it, after a perusal, with this note appended in pencil to the word canals: “Madam, I am a keen skater; would they bear?”
THE DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE.