SIXTH EMPTYING. 89 



I was a bad lad when I was a youngster ; indade, I often 

 wonder now that the divil had time to be anywheres else for 

 looking after me. 



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Some men think they are smart enough to steal the cross 

 off a donkey's back. 



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 There is no pocket in a shroud. 



" Do you know where boys go to who go fishing on a 

 Sunday ? " said the parson to a band of unregenerate 

 culprits. "Yes, sir," said the leader; "they mostly go to 

 Robson's Rock ; there's a gey fine lot of fish about there." 



" What sort of person was this Mrs. Montague Earners 

 who called, Parker? Was she a lady?" "Oh! yes'm; 

 perfeck lady. She wore a lot o' rings and smelt o' sherry." 



A youngster of six had been told by his governess that he 

 must pray to be made a better boy, and thus, that night at 

 her knee, he did it : " Please make Bertie a better boy ; and 

 if at first you don't succeed, try, try again." 





