FRANK, who will any friend supply, Lent me ten guineas.--"Come," said I, "Give me a pen, it is but fair You take my note." Quoth he, "Hold there; Jack! to the cash I've bid adieu;-- No need to waste my paper too." CMLXXVI.--ODD REASON. A CELEBRATED wit was asked why he did not marry a young lady to whom he was much attached. "I know not" he replied, "except the _great regard_ we have for each other." CMLXXVII.--VERY EVIDENT. GARRICK and Rigby, once walking together in Norfolk, observed upon a board at a house by the roadside, the following strange inscription: "A GOES KOORED HEAR."--"How is it possible," said Rigby, "that such people as these can cure agues?"--"I do not know," replied Garrick, "what their prescription is,--but _it is not by a spell_." CMLXXVIII.--OMINOUS, VERY! A JOLLY good fellow had an office next to a doctor's. One day an elderly gentleman of the foggy school blundered into the wrong shop: "Dr. X---- in?"--"Don't live here," says P----, who was in full scribble over some important papers, without looking up. "Oh, I thought this was his office."--"Next door."--"Pray, sir, can you tell me, has the doctor many patients?"--"_Not living_!" The old gentleman was never more heard of in the vicinity. CMLXXIX.--A REVERSE. AN Irishman, who lived in an attic, being asked what part of the house he occupied, answered, "If the house were turned _topsy-turvy_, I'd be livin' on the first flure." CMLXXX.--ON AN M.P. WHO RECENTLY GOT HIS ELECTION AT THE SACRIFICE OF HIS POLITICAL CHARACTER. HIS degradation is complete, His name with loss of honor branding: When he resolved to win his seat He literally lost his standing. CMLXXXI.--MUSICAL TASTE. A LATE noble statesman, more famous for his wit than his love of music, being asked why he did not subscribe to the Ancient Concerts, and it being urged as a reason for it that his brother, the Bishop of W----, did: "Oh," replied his lordship, "if I was as _deaf_ as my brother, I would subscribe too." CMLXXXII.--LINGUAL INFECTION. A FASHIONABLE Irish gentleman, driving a good deal about Cheltenham, was observed to have the not very graceful habit of lolling his tongue out as he went along. Curran, who was there, was asked what he thought could be his countryman's motive for giving the instrument of eloquence such an airing. "Oh!" said he, "he's trying _to catch_ the English accent." CMLXXXIII.--PORSON _versus_ DR. JOWETT. DR. JOWETT, who was a _small_ man, was permitted by the head of his college to cultivate a strip of vacant ground. This gave rise to some _jeux d'esprit_ among the wags of the University, which induced him to alter it into a plot of gravel, and Porson burst forth with the following extemporaneous lines:--