icket--anyone can do it--I did it yesterday." When he alighted he was
followed by the official, who asked him how it was done. For a
consideration he agreed to tell him. This being given, "Now," said the
inquirer, "how did you go from Broad Street to Dalston Junction yesterday
without a ticket?" "Oh," was the reply, "I walked."

THE DOCTOR AND THE OFFICERS.

The following is rather a good story from the Emerald Isle:--A doctor and
his wife got into a train near--well, we will not say where. In the same
carriage with the doctor were two strange officers. The doctor's wife
got into another compartment of the same train, the doctor not having
seen his wife in the hurry, neither knew that they were travelling by the
same train until both had got into different carriages. Said one of the
officers to his companion, "That is the ugliest woman I ever saw." "She
is," replied the Son of Mars. "I should not like to be obliged to kiss
her," responded the first speaker. "I should not mind doing it,"
sullenly said the doctor. "You never would, sir, think of such a thing,"
said the officer. "I'll bet you a sovereign I will," answered the man of
"pills and potions." "Done," said the officer. So when they all got out
at the station, the doctor went forward and kissed his wife, and won his
sovereign--the easiest-earned fee he had ever received. The officers
looked rather astonished when he presented his wife to them.

THE BOTHERED QUEEN'S COUNSEL.

Mr. Merewether, Q.C., got into the train one morning with a whole batch
of briefs and a talkative companion. He wanted to go through his briefs,
but his companion would not let him work. He tried silence, he tried
grunting, he tried sarcasm. At length, when they came to Hanwell, the
gossip hit upon the unfortunate remark, "How well the asylum looks from
the railway!" "Pray, sir," replied Mr. Merewether, "how does the railway
look from the asylum?" The man was silent.

A BRAVE ENGINE DRIVER.

An American contemporary says:--"John Bull, of Galion (Ohio), ought to
have his name recorded in an enduring way, for few have ever behaved so
nobly as that engine driver of the New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio
railroad. As he was driving a passenger train last month he found that,
through somebody's blunder, a freight train was approaching on the same
track, and a collision was inevitable. He could have saved his own life
by leaping from the engine, but,