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Original Anecdotes by the late Horace W: alpoles 
XVII. PRICE OF MAKING A PARKA 
GARDEN. 
Queen Caroline {poke of thutting up 
St. James’s park, and converting it into 
anoble garden for the palace of that name. 
She afked my father * what it might pro- 
bably coft; who replied, ‘* owly three 
CROWNS.” 
» XIX. AN ANECDOTE CORRECTED. 
Let me corre& a ftory relating to the 
great duke of Marlborough. The 
duchefs was preffing the duke to take a 
fnedicine, and with her ufual warmth 
~ faid, “ Tl be hanged if it do not prove 
ferviceable.’ Dr. Garth +, who was 
prefent, exclaimed, ‘‘ Do take it then, 
my lord duke; for it mut be of fervice, 
in one way or the cther.”’ 
XX. DOUBLE PUN. 
‘A good pun is not amifs. Let me tell 
you one I met with in fome book the other 
day. The Ear] of ‘Leicefter, that un- 
worthy favourite of Elizabeth, was 
forming a park about Cornbury, think- 
ing to inclofe it with pofts and rails. As 
he was one day calculating the expence, 
a gentleman ftood by, and told the ear] 
that he did not go the cheapeit way to 
work, “ Why?” faid my lord. “ Be. 
¢aufe,”” replied the gentleman, “ if your 
' Lordfhip will find pojis, the country will 
find railing.” 
XXI. PASSIONATE TEMPER. 
General Sutton, brother of Sir Rohert 
Sutton, was very paflionate: Sir Robert 
Walpole the reverfe. Sutton being one 
day with Sir Robert, while his valet de 
chambre was fhaying him, Sir Robert 
faid, ‘* John, you cut me ;”-—and then 
went on with the converfation. Prefent- 
ly, he faid again, ** John, you cut me’’— 
and a third time—when Sutton ftarting 
up in a rage, and doubling his fift at the 
fervant, fwore a great oath, and faid, 
ee ¥f Sir Robert can bear it, I cannot ; 
and if you cut him once more I’ll knock 
you down.” 
* Mast. QUING | 
Quin fometimes faid things at once 
witty and wife. Difputing concerning 
the execution of Charles I. “© But by 
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* Erroneoufly given to Chefterfield. 
F Zy mifizke put Lord Somers. 
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what laws,”’ faid his opponent, ‘* was he 
Quin replied, **.By all 
the laws he had left them.” 
XXIII. AN INNOCENT MINISTRY. 
He ufed to apply a ftory to the then 
minifiry. A mafter of a fhip calls out, 
*¢ Who is there??? A boy anfwered, 
«Will, Sir.”°—** What are you doing?” 
—‘ Nothing, Sir.”,—* Is Tom there ?”” 
— Yes,” fays Tom. ‘ What are 
you doing, Tom ?”—** Helping Will, 
Si.”* 
XXIV. LORD ROSS. 
The reprobate Lord Rofs, being on 
his death-bed, was defired by his chaplain 
to callon God. Hereplied, “¢ I will if 
I go that way, but I don’t believe I 
fnall.”’ 
XV PECCLESTASTIC SQUABBLE, 
A vicar and curate of a village, where 
there was to bea burial, were at variance. 
The vicar not coming in time, the curate 
began the fervice, and was reading the 
words, © I am the refurreétion,’? when 
the vicar arrived, almoft out of breath, 
and fnatching the book out of the curate’s 
hands, with great fcorn, cried, ** You the 
refurrection ! fam the refurreftion,’”— 
and then went on. 
Nota. ‘This, though copied from Mr. 
Walpole’s own hand-writing, 1s fufpected 
not to be verynew. But ever old jefts, 
that fuch a man thought: worthy of 
writing, or {peaking, cannot be un- 
worthy of a place in this lounging 
compilation ; and they often gained by 
patiing through his hands. 
XKVI. WEAK NERVES. 
A clergyman at Oxford, who was very 
nervous and abient, going to read pray- 
ers at St. Mary’s, heard a fhow-man in the 
High-ftreet, who had an exhibition of 
wild bedlts, repeat often, *€ Walk in 
without lofs of time. Allalive! alive, 
ho !’? The founds ‘ftruck: the ‘abfent 
man, and ran in his head fo much, that 
when he began to read the fervice, and 
came to the words in the firft verfe, ¢ and 
‘doeth that which is lawful and right, 
he fliall fave his foul alive,’’) he cried out, 
with a loudervoice, * fhall fave his foul 
alive! -All alive! alive hol’? to the 
aftonifhment of the congregation, 
(To be ccntinued regularly.) 
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