AN old Scotch domestic gave a capital reason to his _young_ master for his being allowed to do as he liked: "Ye need na find faut wi' me, Maister Jeems, _I hae been langer about the place than yersel'_." MXCI.--SHOULD NOT SILENCE GIVE CONSENT? A LAIRD of Logan was at a meeting of the heritors of Cumnock, where a proposal was made to erect a new churchyard wall. He met the proposition with the dry remark, "I never big dykes till the _tenants_ complain." MXCII.--CHARACTERISTICS. THE late Dr. Brand was remarkable for his spirit of contradiction. One extremely cold morning, in the month of January, he was addressed by a friend with,--"It is a very cold morning, doctor."--"I don't know that," was the doctor's observation, though he was at the instant covered with _snow_. At another time he happened to dine with some gentlemen. The doctor engrossed the conversation almost entirely to himself, and interlarded his observations with Greek and Latin quotations, to the annoyance of the company. A gentleman of no slight erudition, seated next the doctor, remarked to him, "that he ought not to quote so much, as many of the party did not understand it."--"And _you are one_ of them," observed the learned bear. MXCIII.--AN ERROR CORRECTED. JERROLD was seriously disappointed with a certain book written by one of his friends. This friend heard that Jerrold had expressed his disappointment. _Friend_ (to Jerrold).--I hear you said ---- was the worst book I ever wrote. _Jerrold._--No, I didn't. I said it was the worst book anybody ever wrote. MXCIV.--A MYSTERY CLEARED UP. W----, they say, is bright! yet to discover The fact you vainly in St. Stephen's sit. But hold! _Extremes will meet_: the marvel's over; His very _dulness_ is the _extreme_ of wit. MXCV.--BRAHAM AND KENNEY. THE pride of some people differs from that of others. Mr. Bunn was passing through Jermyn Street, late one evening, and seeing Kenney at the corner of St. James's Church, swinging about in a nervous sort of manner, he inquired the cause of his being there at such an hour. He replied, "I have been to the St. James's Theatre, and, do you know, I really thought Braham was a much prouder man than I find him to be." On asking why, he answered, "I was in the green-room, and hearing Braham say, as he entered, 'I am really _proud_ of my pit to-night,' I went and counted it, and there were but _seventeen_ people in it." MXCVI.--HOW TO ESCAPE TAXATION. "I WOULD," says Fox, "a tax devise That shall not fall on me." "Then tax _receipts_," Lord North replies, "For those you _never_ see." MXCVII.--A BED OF--WHERE?