A GIRL forced by her parents into a disagreeable match with an old man, whom she detested, when the clergyman came to that part of the service where the bride is asked if she consents to take the bridegroom for her husband, said, with great simplicity, "Oh dear, no, sir; but you are the first person who has asked _my opinion_ about the matter." CXIV.--SCANDALOUS. IT was said of a great calumniator, and a frequenter of other person's tables, that he never _opened his mouth_ but at another man's expense. CXV.--THE PRINCE OF ORANGE AND JUDGE JEFFERIES. WHEN Jefferies was told that the Prince of Orange would very soon land, and that a manifesto, stating his inducements, objects, &c., was already written, "Pray, my Lord Chief Justice," said a gentleman present, "what do you think will be the heads of this manifesto?"--"_Mine_ will be one," replied he. CXVI.--MODEST REQUEST. A GENTLEMAN travelling, was accosted by a man walking along the road, who begged the favor of him to put his great coat, which he found very heavy, into his carriage. "With all my heart," said the gentleman; "but if we should not be travelling to the same place, how will you get your coat?"--"Monsieur," answered the man with great _naivete_, "_I shall be in it_." CXVII.--CAP THIS. SIR THOMAS MORE, the famous Chancellor, who preserved his humor and wit to the last moment, when he came to be executed on Tower-hill, the headsman demanded his upper garment as his fee; "Ah! friend," said he, taking off his cap, "that, I think, is my _upper_ garment." CXVIII.--A PRETTY METAPHOR. A YOUNG lady marrying a man she loved, and leaving many friends in town, to retire with him into the country, Mrs. D. said prettily, "She has turned one-and-twenty shillings into a guinea." CXIX.--ON A STONE THROWN AT A VERY GREAT MAN, BUT WHICH MISSED HIM. TALK no more of the lucky escape of the _head_ From a flint so unluckily thrown; I think very diff'rent, with thousands indeed, 'Twas a lucky escape for the _stone_. CXX.--A MAN OF LETTERS. WHEN Mr. Wilkes was in the meridian of his popularity, a man in a porter-house, classing himself as an eminent literary character, was asked by one of his companions what right he had to assume such a title. "Sir," says he, "I'd have you know, I had the honor of _chalking_ number 45 upon every door between Temple Bar and Hyde Park-corner." CXXI.--WELSH WIG-GING. AN Englishman and a Welshman, disputing in whose country was the best living, said the Welshman, "There is such noble housekeeping in Wales, that I have known above a dozen cooks employed at one wedding dinner."--"Ay," answered the Englishman, "that was because every man _toasted_ his own cheese." CXXII.--A SPRIG OF SHILLALAH.