Merry-thoughts on men and things.

Date:
[Between 1860 and 1865?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Merry-thoughts on men and things. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    All the Difference. ILL SLENDER wished to get married, bat could not find courage to pop the question. On informing his father of the difficulty he la¬ boured under, the old gentleman said passion¬ ately, “ Why, you fool¬ ish fellow, how do you suppose I managed when I got married ? ” “Ah, yes,” was the answer; “you married mother, but I’ve got to marry a strange girl.” Natural Grief. One hiring a lodging said to the landlady, “I assure you, madam, I am so much liked that I never left a lodging but my landlady shed tears.” “Perhaps,” said she, “you always went away without paying ! ” - Excessive Joy. On the effects of excessive joy, Dr. Rooke, in the “Anti-Lancet,59 says :—“ In the English newspapers of May 27th, 1854, I read that upon the occasion of announcing a free discharge to the convicts in Newgate Prison, Dublin, who were under sentence of penal servitude, four of them were so overjoyed as to drop down dead ! ” - A Tight Fit. An old Scotch laird was once induced to employ an itinerant tailor instead of a metropolitan artist. In a short time a new pair of inexpressibles were sent home to him, and they were so tight that after waxing hot and red in the attempt to try them on, he let out rather savagely at the tailor, who calmly assured I him “ It’s the fash’n ; it’s jest the fash’n.” “ Eh, ye haveril, iiB it the fashion for them no to go on ? ” O OtmJ a ©3 © St 68 © © a © ©