n
the season of 1823, in the part of _Miss Stirling_, in "The Clandestine
Marriage." When speaking of the conduct of _Betty_, who had locked the
door of _Miss Fanny's_ room, and walked away with the key, Mrs. G. said,
"_She had locked the key, and carried away the door in her pocket_."
Mrs. Davenport, as _Mrs. Heidelberg_, had previously excited a hearty
laugh, by substituting for the original dialogue, "_I protest there's a
candle coming along the gallery with a man in his hand_;" but the
mistake by Mrs. Gibbs seemed to be so unintentional, so unpremeditated,
that the effect was irresistible; and the audience, celebrated the joke
with three rounds of applause.

CDLVI.--A BROKEN HEAD.

"I AM the only man in Europe, sir," said the Colonel, "that ever had a
broken head,--to live after it. I was hunting near my place in
Yorkshire; my horse threw me, and I was pitched, head-foremost, upon a
scythe which had been left upon the ground. When I was taken up my head
was found to be literally cut in two, and was spread over my shoulders
like a pair of epaulettes. _That_ was a broken head, if you please,
sir."

CDLVII.--CALEDONIAN COMFORT.

TWO pedestrian travellers, natives of the North, had taken up their
quarters for the night at a _Highland hotel_ in Breadalbane: one of them
next morning complained to his friend that he had a very indifferent
bed, and asked him how he had slept. "Troth, man," replied Donald, "nea
vera well, either; but I was muckle better aff than the _bugs_, for
de'il ane of them closed an e'e the hale night!"

CDLVIII.--AN ODD FAMILY.

BLAYNEY said, in reference to several persons, all relations to each
other, but who happened to have no descendants, that "it seemed to be
_hereditary_ in their family to have no children."

CDLIX.--A LAWYER'S OPINION OF LAW.

COUNSELLOR M----T, after he retired from practice, being one day in
company where the uncertainty of the law became the topic of
conversation, was applied to for his opinion, upon which he laconically
observed, "If any man were to claim the _coat_ upon my back, and
threaten my refusal with a lawsuit, he should certainly have it, lest in
defending my _coat_ I should too late find that I was deprived of my
_waistcoat_ also."

CDLX.--BEN JONSON.

WHEN the Archbishop of York sent him from his table an excellent dish of
fish, but without drink, said:--

"In a dish came fish
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