At a late court, a man and his wife brought cross actions, each charging the other with having committed assault and battery. On investigation, it appeared that the husband had pushed the door against the wife, and the wife in turn pushed the door against the husband. A gentleman of the bar remarked that he could see no impropriety in a man and his wife a-door-ing each other.
NAUGHTY CHARLES LAMB.
Charles Lamb once, while riding in company with a lady, descried a party denuded for swimming a little way off. He remarked: "Those girls ought to go to a more retired place." "They are boys," replied the lady. "You may be right," rejoined Charlie, "I can't distinguish so accurately as you, at such a distance."
TOO GREEN.
"Sallie," said a young man to his red-haired sweetheart, "keep your head away from me; you will set me on fire."
"No danger," was the contemptuous answer, "you are too green to burn."
HIGH COMPANY.
A Gascon was vaunting one day, that in his travels he had been caressed wherever he went, and had seen all the great men throughout Europe. "Have you seen the Dardanelles?" inquired one of the company. "Parbleu!" says he; "I most surely have seen them, when I dined with them several times."
EMPHASIS.
The force of emphasis is clearly shown in the following brief colloquy, between two lawyers: