CMLXXIII.--AN IRISHMAN'S PLEA.

"ARE you guilty, or not guilty?" asked the clerk of arraigns of a
prisoner the other day. "An' sure now," said Pat, "what are _you_ put
there for but to find that out?"

CMLXXIV.--ACCOMMODATING.

A MAN in a passion spoke many scurrilous words; a friend being by, said,
"You speak foolishly." He answered, "_It is that you may understand
me_."

CMLXXV.--GENEROSITY AND PRUDENCE.

FRANK, who will any friend supply,
Lent me ten guineas.--"Come," said I,
"Give me a pen, it is but fair
You take my note." Quoth he, "Hold there;
Jack! to the cash I've bid adieu;--
No need to waste my paper too."

CMLXXVI.--ODD REASON.

A CELEBRATED wit was asked why he did not marry a young lady to whom he
was much attached. "I know not" he replied, "except the _great regard_
we have for each other."

CMLXXVII.--VERY EVIDENT.

GARRICK and Rigby, once walking together in Norfolk, observed upon a
board at a house by the roadside, the following strange inscription: "A
GOES KOORED HEAR."--"How is it possible," said Rigby, "that such people
as these can cure agues?"--"I do not know," replied Garrick, "what their
prescription is,--but _it is not by a spell_."

CMLXXVIII.--OMINOUS, VERY!

A JOLLY good fellow had an office next to a doctor's. One day an elderly
gentleman of the foggy school blundered into the wrong shop: "Dr. X----
in?"--"Don't live here," says P----, who was in full scribble over some
important papers, without looking up. "Oh, I thought this was his
office."--"Next door."--"Pray, sir, can you tell me, has the doctor many
patients?"--"_Not living_!" The old gentleman was never more heard of in
the vicinity.

CMLXXIX.--A REVERSE.

AN Irishman, who lived in an attic, being asked what part of the house
he occupied, answered, "If the house were turned _topsy-turvy_, I'd be
livin' on the first flure."

CMLXXX.--ON AN M.P. WHO RECENTLY GOT HIS ELECTION AT THE SACRIFICE
OF HIS POLITICAL CHARACTER.

HIS degradation is complete,
His name with loss of honor branding:
When he resolved to win his seat
He literally lost his standing.

CMLXXXI.--MUSICAL TASTE.

A LATE noble statesman, more famous for his wit than his love of music,
being asked why he did not subscribe to the Ancient Concerts, and it
being urged as a reason for it that his brother, the B