Smith: (grinning from ear to ear)—Me got ten pounds! I should like to see a cove vot ever had sitch a precious sum all at vonce. All as ever I got is threeha'pence-farden, and a bag of marbles; (to the other)—you got any capital, Bill?
Bill: Ain't got nuffin—spent my last brown on Vensday for a baked tater.
Mr. Conant looked over the act with a view of ascertaining if power had been granted to mitigate; but the legislature had so carefully provided for the enormity of the offence, that nothing less than the full penalty would, according to the act, satisfy the justice of the case.
The fine of 10l. each was imposed, or ten days' imprisonment.
ARBOREAL.
A rather foolish man of great wealth, was asked one day, if he had his genealogical tree.
"I don't know," he replied; "I have a great many trees, and I dare say I have that one. I will ask my gardener."
EXPLICIT.
In an Irish provincial journal there is an advertisement running thus:—
"Wanted—a handy laborer, who can plow a married man and a Protestant, with a son or daughter."