Prisoner—Well, if it's all the same to you, sor, Oi'd like to be a sailor.
—Munsey's Weekly.
A Poetical Cook.
Ferguson—So our cook is going, is she? Well, I hope the next one will be of a more literary turn.
Mrs. Ferguson—What do you mean by that?
Mr. Ferguson—A more earnest disciple of the art of Browning, don't you know.
—Boston Post.