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massa ; me not rob a single hen roost for six weeks past." 

 " That's right," said his spiritual adviser, " continue in the 

 right way and you will earn the esteem of all men." " Golly !" 

 said Sambo as the minister left him, " he berry nearly had 

 me that time ; if he'd 'a said ducks, he'd 'a had me." 



One of a party of three men working on a bog in Ireland 

 is said to have been rudely aroused from his mid-day siesta 

 by a cry from the second man that the third man had fallen 

 into the bog and needed instant help. " How deep is he in ?" 

 " Up to his knees," was the answer. " Och ! be jabers," 

 said he, " that's nothing at all ; many's the time I have been 

 deeper than that." " True for you, Pat, that might be," 

 answered the other, " but come and catch hould and give a 

 help, for poor Mike's in head first." 



A sexton in Aberdeenshire, (my Scotch friends must 

 forgive me it is only my play, as the cabman said of his 

 horse when the infuriated animal kicked the entire front of 

 the vehicle in) charged 303. for dues. The friends of the 

 deceased complained to the minister of the overcharge, and 

 the minister rebuked the sexton smartly, whereupon 

 Tammas replied, "Weel, ye see, sir, the wye was this: 

 When the corp and me was twa lunes, he cheated me out of 

 305. in the truck of a watch, and, ye see, it was my last 

 chance, and if I hadna getten't off him noo I wouldna a* 

 getten it ava." 



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A certain angler of a contemplative turn of mind was 

 ruminating in the garden in the twilight of a June evening, 

 when, in turning the corner of the building, he came into 

 violent collision with an absent-minded beetle going in the 

 opposite direction. This particular beetle, according to the 



