We take your amiable hint, good ‘P.’ of S——, and shall venture the forfeit. That our own ‘humor is no great shakes,’ we very cheerfully admit—so that there is an end to that ‘difference of opinion.’ ‘P.’ reminds us of an anecdote which we had not long since from a friend. ‘There, take that!’ said a would-be facetious doctor to a patient, whom he had been boring almost to extinction with what he fancied to be humor; ‘take it; ’t will do you good, though it is nauseous.’ ‘Don’t say a word about that,’ said the patient, swallowing the revolting potion; ‘the man who has endured your wit, has nothing to fear from your physic!’ ••• ‘C. M. P.’s parody on ‘Oh no, I never mention Him,’ is a very indifferent affair, compared with Hood’s transcript of that well-known song. We remember a stanza or two of it:
‘Oh, no, I never mentioned it,
I never said a word;
But lent my friend a five-pound note,
Of which I’ve never heard.
He said he merely borrowed it
To pay another debt;
And since I’ve never mention’d it,
He thinks that I forget!
‘Whene’er we ride, I pays the ’pike;