your neighbor says he can do for
seven?"--"Lord, sir!" replied the man, "my neighbor can easily do it, he
has but _three_ children to clothe, I have _six_."

MCLXII.--TRUE AND FALSE.

A BEGGAR asking alms under the name of a poor scholar, a gentleman to
whom he applied himself, asked him a question in, _Latin_. The fellow,
shaking his head, said he did not understand him. "Why," said the
gentleman, "did you not say you were a poor scholar?"--"Yes," replied
the other, "a _poor one_ indeed, sir, for I do not understand one word
of _Latin_."

MCLXIII.--NOT QUITE CORRECT.

A HUNTSMAN, reported to have lived with Mr. Beckford, was not so correct
in his conversation as he was in his professional employments. One day
when he had been out with the young hounds, Mr. B. sent for him, and
asked what sport he had had, and how the hounds behaved. "Very great
sport, sir, and no hounds could behave better."--"Did you run him
long?"--"They run him up-wards of five hours _successfully_."--"So then
you _did_ kill him?"--"O no, sir; we lost him at last."

MCLXIV.--A FOOL CONFIRMED.

DR. PARR, who was neither very choice nor delicate in his epithets, once
called a clergyman a _fool_, and there was probably some truth in his
application of the word. The clergyman, however, being of a different
opinion, declared he would complain to the bishop of the usage. "Do so,"
added the learned Grecian, "and my Lord Bishop will _confirm_ you."

MCLXV.--PLEASANT.

A COUNTRY dentist advertises that "he spares no pains" to render his
operations satisfactory.

MCLXVI.--ALERE FLAMMAN.

MRS. B---- desired Dr. Johnson to give his opinion of a new work she had
just written, adding, that if it would not do, she begged him to tell
her, for she had other _irons in the fire_, and in case of its not being
likely to succeed, she could bring out something else. "Then," said the
doctor, after having turned over a few of the leaves, "I advise you,
madam, to put it where your _other irons_ are."

MCLXVII.--ORATORY.

AT the time when Sir Richard Steele was preparing his great room in York
Buildings for public orations, he was behindhand in his payments to the
workmen; and coming one day among them, to see what progress they made,
he ordered the carpenter to get into the rostrum, and speak anything
that came uppermost, that he might observe how it could be heard. "Why
then, Sir Richard," says the f