I'll leave
you to manage him--_I'll walk back_."

DCXCI.--WHAT'S IN A SYLLABLE?

LONGFELLOW, the poet, was introduced to one Longworth, and some one
noticed the similarity of the first syllable of the names. "Yes," said
the poet, "but in this case I fear Pope's line will apply,--'_Worth_
makes the man, the want of it the _fellow_.'"

DCXCII.--QUIET THEFT.

A SADDLE being missing at a funeral, it was observed, no wonder that
nothing was heard of it, for it is believed to have been stolen by a
_mute_.

DCXCIII.--GOOD ADVICE.

A YOUNG man (placed by his friends as a student at a veterinary college)
being in company with some of his colleagues, was asked, "If a
broken-winded horse were brought to him for cure, what he would advise?"
After considering for a moment, "Advise," said he, "I should advise the
owner _to sell_ as soon as possible."

DCXCIV.--CRITICISING A STATUE.

SOON after Canning's statue was put up in Palace Yard, in all its
verdant freshness, the carbonate of copper not yet blackened by the
smoke of London, Mr. Justice Gazelee was walking away from Westminster
Hall with a friend, when the judge, looking at the statue (which is
colossal), said, "I don't think this is very like Canning; he was not so
_large_ a man."--"No, my lord," replied his companion, "nor so _green_."

DCXCV.--A COMPARISON.

DURING the assizes, in a case of assault and battery, where a stone had
been thrown by the defendant, the following clear and conclusive
evidence was drawn out of a Yorkshireman:--

"Did you see the defendant throw the stone?"--"I saw a stone, and I'ze
pretty sure the defendant throwed it."

"Was it a large stone?"--"I should say it wur a largish stone."

"What was its size?"--"I should say a sizeable stone."

"Can't you answer definitely how big it was?"--"I should say it wur a
stone of some bigness."

"Can't you give the jury some idea of the stone?"--"Why, as near as I
recollect, it wur something of a stone."

"Can't you compare it to some other object?"--"Why, if I wur to compare
it, so as to give some notion of the stone, I should say it wur as large
as a lump o' chalk!"

DCXCVI.--FATIGUE DUTY.

A CERTAIN reverend gentleman in the country was complaining to another
that it was a great fatigue to preach twice a day. "Oh!" said the other,
"I preach twice every Sunday, and _make nothing_ of it."

DCXCVII.--GLUTTONS AND EPICUR