--I have sent to you as Coashon a gences Leting your fouls Coming
Eting and destrowing My Pegs vettles and if so be you Let them Com on My
Premses hafter this Noddes I will kil them.

"RD. GOLD."

CLVII.--NATIVE WIT.

JOHN was thought to be very stupid. He was sent to a mill one day, and
the miller said, "John, some people say you are a fool! Now, tell me
what you do know, and what you don't know."--"Well," replied John, "I
know millers' hogs are fat!"--"Yes, that's well, John! Now, what don't
you know?"--"I don't know _whose corn_ fats 'em!"

CLVIII.--WORTH THE MONEY.

SIR ROBERT WALPOLE having misquoted a passage in Horace, Mr. Pulteney
said the honorable gentleman's Latin was as bad as his politics. Sir
Robert adhered to his version, and bet his opponent a guinea that he was
right, proposing Mr. Harding as arbiter. The bet being accepted, Harding
rose, and with ludicrous solemnity gave his decision against his patron.
The guinea was thrown across the House; and when Pulteney stooped to
pick it up, he observed, that "it was the first _public money_ he had
touched for a long time." After his death, the guinea was found wrapped
up in a piece of paper on which the circumstance was recorded.

CLIX.--SUITED TO HIS SUBJECT.

THE ballot was, it seems, first proposed in 1795, by Major
_Cart-wright_, who somewhat appropriately wrote a book upon the
_Common-Wheel_.

CLX.--NOT _versus_ NOTT.

A GENTLEMAN of Maudlin, whose name was _Nott_, returning late from his
friend's rooms, attracted the attention of the proctor, who demanded his
name and college. "I am _Nott_ of Maudlin," was the reply, hiccupping.
"Sir," said the proctor, in an angry tone, "I did not ask of what
college you are _not_, but of what college you are."--"I am _Nott_ of
Maudlin," was again the broken reply. The proctor, enraged at what he
considered contumely, insisted on accompanying him to Maudlin, and
demanded of the porter, "whether he knew the gentleman."--"Know him,
sir," said the porter, "yes, it is Mr. _Nott_ of this college." The
proctor now perceived his error in _not_ understanding the gentleman,
and wished him a good night.

CLXI.--A COCKNEY EPIGRAM.

In Parliament, it's plain enough,
No reverence for age appears;
For they who hear each speaker's _stuff_,
Find there is no respect for _(y) ears_.