compliment of
_capping_. The bishop inquired the reason of the neglect. The two men
begged his lordship's pardon, observing they were _freshmen_, and did
not know him. "How long have you been in Cambridge?" asked his lordship.
"Only _eight_ days," was the reply. "Very good," said the bishop,
"_puppies_ never see till they are _nine_ days old."

DCCCLXXXII.--EPIGRAM.

(On Lord W----'s saying the independence of the House of Lords is gone.)

"THE independence of the Lords is gone,"
Says W----, to truth for once inclined;
And to believe his lordship I am prone,
Seeing that he himself is left behind.

DCCCLXXXIII.--CONFIDENCE--TAKEN FROM THE FRENCH.

ON the first night of the representation of one of Jerrold's pieces, a
successful adaptator from the French rallied him on his nervousness.
"I," said the adaptator, "never feel nervous on the first night of my
pieces."--"Ah, my boy," Jerrold replied, "_you_ are always certain of
success. Your pieces have all been tried before."

DCCCLXXXIV.--BETTER KNOWN THAN TRUSTED.

A WELL-KNOWN borrower stopped a gentleman whom he did not know, and
requested the loan of a sovereign. "Sir," said the gentleman, "I am
surprised that you should ask me such a favor, who do not know
you."--"O, dear sir," replied the borrower, "that's the very reason; for
_those who do_, will not lend me a farthing."

DCCCLXXXV.--WILL AND THE WAY.

AT a provincial Law Society's dinner the president called upon the
senior attorney to give as a toast the person whom he considered the
best friend of the profession. "Certainly," was the response. "The man
who _makes his own will_."

DCCCLXXXVI.--A REASONABLE EXCUSE.

A PERSON lamented the difficulty he found in persuading his friends to
return the volumes which he had lent them. "Sir," replied a friend,
"your acquaintances find it is much more easy to _retain_ the books
themselves, than what is _contained_ in them."

DCCCLXXXVII.--BEWICK, THE ENGRAVER.

WHEN the Duke of Northumberland first called to see Mr. Bewick's
workshops at Newcastle, he was not personally known to the engraver. On
discovering the high rank of his visitor, Bewick exclaimed, "I beg
pardon, my lord, I did not know your grace, and was unaware I had the
honor of talking to so great a man." To which the Duke good humoredly
replied, "You are a much greater man than I am, Mr. Bewick." To this
Bewick answered, "