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A heavy masher found himself at an old maid's tea- 

 drinking, when they suddenly floored him with an unexpected 

 request that he would say grace. Not for years had anyone 

 expected him to say anything with sense in it, and he was 

 upset ; but with a mighty effort he pulled himself together, 

 and spoiled the tea party and himself for ever by ejaculating 

 solemnly, " For what we are going to receive, a' thanks, 

 awfla." 



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A well-known man staying at the hotel at Lowood, on 

 Windermere, outraged decency one fine Sunday morning by 

 taking his fishing tackle down to the boat and setting out to 

 make a day of it. He returned in time for dinner with a few 

 perch, and the fact that he had thus been desecrating the day 

 was the subject of many friendly insinuations and allusions at 

 the table d'hote. Lounging through the hall afterwards he was 

 accosted by a frigid looking mortal whose aspect betokened 

 the unco guid, who said to him, " I am surprised, nay more, 

 sir, I am grieved and shocked to hear you have not set a 

 worthier example on this day. Have you thought, sir, where 

 you are going, and what your example is pointing others to ?" 

 " I am going at present," said the unabashed Sabbath 

 breaker, " to smoke a cigar on the pier." He was thus 

 walking off when something occurred to him and he returned 

 to old Vinegar and spake as follows : " Do you, may I 

 enquire, believe that if you went out fishing on the lake 

 to-day, you would end up down there," said he, pointing to 

 the ground. "Certainly I do." "Ah! then," said my 

 friend, " don't you go." 



An American gentleman I met recently had been staying 

 at a quiet inn in the State of Maine where he had had 

 excellent fishing. A man, he said, came in one night, and 

 as there were both electrical bells and the old fashioned bell 



