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a customer with a quantity of liquor, which he delivered with the following words:--"Marstur bid me tell ye _Sar_, as how 'tis the New _Infarnal_ Measure." * * * * * A farmer calling upon his landlord to pay his rent, apologized for being late, by saying that his illness prevented his attending earlier, and he did not know what his disorder was. The gentleman told him it was "Influenza." Returning home he was met by the schoolmaster of the village, who inquired after his health, "I am very poorly," replied the farmer, "my landlord tells me my complaint is _Humphry Windsor_." * * * * * A witness on a trial being interrogated by Judge Willis, in a manner not pleasing to him, turned to an acquaintance, and told him in a half whisper, "he did not come there to be queered by the old one." Willis heard him, and instantly replied, in his own cant, "I am old 'tis true--and I'm rum sometimes--and for once I'll be queer--and I send you to quod." H.B.A. * * * * * An exciseman whose remarks and answers were frequently rather odd, riding at a quick pace upon a _blind_ pony, was met by a person who praised the animal much, "Yes," replied the officer, "he is a very good one, only he _shies_ at every thing he _sees_." * * * * * SIR WALTER SCOTT'S NEW NOVEL A supplement published with the present Number, contains an outline of of the Novel of Anne of Geierstein, OR THE MAID OF THE MIST; With Unique Extracts, &c. * * * * * LIMBIRD'S EDITION OF THE _Following Novels is already Published:_ _s_. _d_. Mackenzie's Man of Feeling 0 6 Paul and Virginia 0 6 The Castle of Otranto 0 6 Almoran and Hamet 0 6 Elizabeth, or the Exiles of Siberia 0 6 The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne 0 6 Rasselas 0 8 The Old English Baron 0 8 Nature and Art 0 8 Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield 0 10 Sicilian Romance 1 0 The Man of the World 1 0 A Simple Story 1 4 Joseph Andrews 1 6 Humphry Clinker 1 8 The Romance of the
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