UGGESTION.

A BEGGAR in Dublin had been long besieging an old, gouty, testy
gentleman, who roughly refused to relieve him. The mendicant civilly
replied, "I wish your honor's _heart was as tender as your toes_."

MDXCVIII.--SUDDEN FREEDOM.

A NATION grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and
the vigor of a man, who would take a drawn sword for his rattle, and set
the house in a blaze, that he might chuckle over the splendor.--S.S.

MDXCIX.--EPIGRAM.

THY flattering picture, Phryne, 's like to thee
Only in this, that you both painted be.

MDC.--ANSWERING HER ACCORDING TO HER FOLLY.

A LADY having put to Canning the silly question, "Why have they made the
spaces in the iron gate at Spring Gardens so narrow?" he replied, "O,
ma'am, because such _very fat people used to go through_" (a reply
concerning which Tom Moore remarked that "the person who does not relish
it can have no perception of real wit").

MDCI.--THE SUN IN HIS EYE.

LORD PLUNKETT had a son in the Church at the time the Tithe Corporation
Act was passed, and warmly supported the measure. Some one observed, "I
wonder how it is that so sensible a man as Plunkett _cannot see_ the
imperfections in the Tithe Corporation Act!"--"Pooh! pooh!" said
Norbury, "the reason's plain enough; he has _the sun (son) in his eye_."

MDCII.--A BRIGHT REJOINDER.

AN Englishman paying an Irish shoeblack with rudeness, the "dirty
urchin" said, "My honey, all the _polish_ you have is upon your boots
and I gave you that."

MDCIII.--WELL TURNED.

ON the formation of the Grenville administration, Bushe, who had the
reputation of a waverer, apologized one day for his absence from court,
on the ground that he was _cabinet-making_. The chancellor maliciously
disclosed the excuse on his return. "O, indeed, my lord, that is an
occupation in which my friend would distance me, as I was never a
_turner_ or a _joiner_."

MDCIV.--A QUICK LIE.

A CONCEITED coxcomb, with a very patronizing air, called out to an Irish
laborer, "Here, you bogtrotter, come and tell me the greatest lie you
can, and I'll treat you to a jug of whiskey-punch."--"By my word," said
Pat, "an' yer honor's a _gintleman_!"

MDCV.--A MERRY THOUGHT.

THEY cannot be complete in aught
Who are not humorously prone;
A man without a merry thought
Can hardly have a funny bone.