pers were written for and against the tar-water and the
restored leg, when a second letter arrived from the (pretended) country
practitioner:--"In my last I omitted to mention that the broken limb of
the sailor was a _wooden leg_!"

DCCCXXII.--AN ACCOMMODATING PHYSICIAN.

"IS there anything the matter with you?" said a physician to a person
who had sent for him. "O dear, yes, I am ill all over, but I don't know
what it is, and I have no particular pain nowhere," was the reply. "Very
well," said the doctor, "I'll give you something to _take away all
that_."

DCCCXXIII.--CHOICE SPIRITS.

AN eminent spirit-merchant in Dublin announced, in one of the Irish
papers, that he has still a small quantity of the whiskey on sale _which
was drunk by his late Majesty while in Dublin_.

DCCCXXIV.--AN EXPLANATION.

YOUNG, the author of "Night Thoughts," paid a visit to Potter, son of
Archbishop Potter, who lived in a deep and dirty part of Kent, through
which Young had scrambled with some difficulty and danger. "Whose field
was that I crossed?" asked Young, on reaching his friend. "Mine," said
Potter. "True," replied the poet; "Potter's field _to bury_ strangers
in."

DCCCXXV.--IMPROMPTU BY R.B. SHERIDAN.

LORD ERSKINE having once asserted, in the presence of Lady Erskine and
Mr. Sheridan, that a wife was only a tin canister tied to one's tail,
Sheridan at once presented her these lines,--

Lord Erskine at woman presuming to rail,
Calls a wife "a tin canister tied to one's tail;"
And fair Lady Anne, while the subject he carries on,
Seems hurt at his lordship's degrading comparison.
But wherefore "degrading?" Considered aright,
A canister's useful, and polished, and bright;
And should dirt its original purity hide,
'Tis the fault of the puppy to whom it is tied.

DCCCXXVI.--LAW AND PHYSIC.

A LEARNED judge being asked the difference between law and equity
courts, replied, "At common law you are done for at once: at equity, you
are not so easily disposed of. One is _prussic acid_, and the other
_laudanum_."

DCCCXXVII.--IMPROMPTU.

COUNSELLOR (afterwards Chief Justice) BUSHE, being on one occasion asked
which of a company of actors he most admired, maliciously replied, "The
_prompter_, sir, for I have heard the most and seen the least _of him_."

DCCCXXVIII.--NOTIONS OF HAPPINESS.

"WERE I but a _king_," said a count