The Jest Book: The Choicest Anecdotes and SayingsLemon, Mark
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The Jest Book: The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings
Lemon, Mark
Anecdotes -- Great Britain; English wit and humor
At his Fingers' Ends, 106
Attending to a Wish, 169
Attic Jest, An 69
Attired to Tire, 343
Audley, The Late Lord, 130
Auricular Confession, 227
Awkward Orthography, 298
"Aye! There's the Rub", 93
BACK-HANDED HIT, A, 209
Bacon, 138
Bad Bargain, A, 131
Bad Company, 166
Bad Crop, A, 18, 58
Bad Customer, A, 96
Bad End, A, 153
Bad Example, A, 1
Bad Habit, 136
Bad Harvest, A, 23
Bad Judge, A, 287
Bad Label, A, 92
Bad Lot, A, 182
Bad Medium, A, 217
Bad Pen, A, 72
Bad Preacher, A, 226
Bad Shot, A, 12
Bad Sport, 146
Balance, A, 233
Balancing Accounts, 66
Banker's Check, A, 17
Barber Shaved by a Lawyer, 305
Bark and Bite, 231
Barry's Powers of Pleasing, 34
Base Joke, A, 347
Base One, A, 97
Bearable Pun, A, 358
Bear and Van, 16
Bearding a Barber, 2
Benefit of Competition, 212
Best Judge, The, 110
Best Wine, The, 193
Better Known than Trusted, 193
Betting, 155
Bewick, the Engraver, 194
Bill Paid in Full, 228
Billy Brown and the Counsellor, 50
Birth of a Prince, The, 178
Bishop and Churchwarden, A, 71
Bishop and his Portmanteau, The, 55
Bit of Moonshine, A, 335
Black and White, 19
Black Joke, A, 159
Black Letter, 101
Black Oils, 18
Blowing a Nose, 55
Book Case, A, 70
Boswell's "Life of Johnson", 154
Braham and Kenney, 237
Bred on the Boards, 162
Brevity, 81
Brevity of Charity, 215
Brief Correspondence, 179
"Brief Let It Be", 210
Bright and Sharp, 63
Bright Rejoinder, A, 346
Bringing his Man Down, 245
Broad-brim Hint, A, 81
Broad Hint, A, 85, 165
Broad-Sheet Hint, A, 75
Broken Head, A, 98
Brotherly Love, 46, 300
Brutal Affections, 67
Budget of Blunders, A, 141
Buried Worth, 56
Burke and Fox, 258
Burke's Tediousness, 270
Business and Pleasure, 326
Busy Bodies, 124
But one Good Translation, 358
Byron Libellous, 342
CABAL, A, 31
Calculation, 105
Calculation, A, 265
Caledonian Comfort, 99
Calf's Head Surprised, 25
Caliban's Looking-glass, 51
Calumny, 220
Cambridge Etiquette, 76
Candid Counsel, A, 156
Candid on both Sides, 222
Candle and Lantern, The, 125
Candor, 73
Canine Poetry, 169
Canning's Parasites, 71
Capital Joke, A, 56
Capital Letter, A, 14
Cap This, 26
Carrots Classically Considered, 222
Cart before the Horse, The, 60
Case of Necessity, A, 189
Cash Payments, 149
Catching him Up, 70
Cause and Effect, 226, 344
Cause of Absence, 40
Cause, The, 158
Cautious Lover, A, 108
Celestial Vision, A, 351
Certain Crop, A, 208
Certainly not Asleep, 109
Certainty, A, 83
Challenging a Jury, 107
Change for a Guinea, 337
Change for the Better, A, 197
Changing Hats, 280
Changing his Coat, 3
Changing his Line, 39
Characteristics, 237
Charitable Wit, 195
Charity and Inconvenience, 326
Charity begins at Home, 312
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