DIVISION OF LABOUR.
Sportsman (in Standing Beans). "Where to, now, Jack?"
Jack. "Well! Let's see! I should just go up the Beans again, and across the top-end, beat down the other side and round by the bottom; while you're there, get over and try Old Haycock's Standing Oats—he won't mind—I'll stop here and Mark!"
PRINCE ALBERT, THE CZAR, AND THE TURK.
"For Heaven's sake, gentlemen, don't nail the poor man's ears to the pump!"
Such was the benevolent exclamation of Tyger Roche (an Irish fire-eater of the last century) when he beheld a certain attorney within the walls of Dublin Jail. And the prayer was sufficient; for no sooner was it uttered, than the hapless lawyer was in the clutches of invoked persecutors, and hammer and nails hotly sought for.