MVII.--LARGE, BUT NOT LARGE ENOUGH. THE Rev. William Cole, of Cambridge, nicknamed the Cardinal, was remarkable for what is called a "comfortable assurance." Dining in a party at the University, he took up from the table a gold snuff-box, belonging to the gentleman seated next to him, and bluntly remarked that "It was big enough to hold the freedom of a corporation."--"Yes, Mr. Cole," replied the owner; "it would hold any _freedom_ but yours." MVIII.--HENRY ERSKINE. MR. HENRY ERSKINE (brother of Lord Buchan and Lord Erskine), after being presented to Dr. Johnson by Mr. Boswell, and having made his bow, slipped a shilling into Boswell's hand, whispering that it was for the sight of his _bear_. MIX.--EPITAPH ON A MISER. READER, beware immoderate love of pelf, Here lies the worst of thieves,--who robbed himself. MX.--SMART REPLY. SOME schoolboys meeting a poor woman driving asses, one of them said to her, "Good morning, mother of asses."--"Good morning, my child," was the reply. MXI.--CALUMNY. GEORGE THE THIRD once said to Sir J. Irwin, a famous _bon-vivant_, "They tell me, Sir John, you love a _glass_ of wine."--"Those, sire, who have so reported me to your Majesty," answered he, bowing profoundly, "do me great injustice; they should have said,--_a bottle_!" MXII.--LOVE. THEY say love's like the measles,--all the worse when it comes late in life.--D.J. MXIII.--ANY CHANGE FOR THE BETTER. A VERY plain actor being addressed on the stage, "My lord, you _change_ countenance"; a young fellow in the pit cried, "For heaven's sake, _let him_!" MXIV.--TOO FAST. TWO travellers were robbed in a wood, and tied to trees. One of them in despair exclaimed, "O, I am undone!"--"Are you?" said the other joyfully; "then I wish you'd come and _undo me_." MXV.--A REVERSE JOKE. A SOLDIER passing through a meadow, a large mastiff ran at him, and he stabbed the dog with a bayonet. The master of the dog asked him why he had not rather struck the dog with the butt-end of his weapon? "So I should," said the soldier, "if he had run at me with his _tail_!" MXVI.--A TRANSPORTING SUBJECT. THE subject for the Chancellor's English Prize Poem, for the year 1823, was _Australasia_ (New Holland). This happened to be the subject of conversation at a party of Johnians, when, some observing that they thought it a bad subject, one of the party remarked, "It was at least a _transporting_ one." MXVII.--HARD-WARE. A FEW years ago, when Handel's L'Allegro and Il Penseroso were performed at Birmingham, the passage most admired was,-- Such notes, as warbled to the string, Drew _iron tears_ down Pluto's cheek. The great manufacturers and mechanics of the place were inconceivably delighted with this idea, because they had never heard of anything _in iron_ before that could not be made at Birmingham. MXVIII.--PAINTING AND MEDICINE.