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
Humorist Piqued, A, 339
Husbanding his Resources, 321
Husband's Marriage, On Mr., 120
"I CAN GET THROUGH", 263
Idolatry, 79
Illegal Indorsement, An, 325
Imitation of a Cow, 121
Important to Bachelors, 280
Impossible in the Evening, 254
Impossible Renunciation, An, 191
Impromptu by Counsellor Bushe, 181
Impromptu by R.B. Sheridan, 180
Impromptu on an Apple being thrown at Mr. Cooke, 230
Impromptu--"St. Stephen's Walls", 101
Impromptu--"The Fall of Sparta", 143
Impudent Wit, An, 346
Inadvertence and Epicurism, 286
Incapacity, 241
Inconvenient Breakdown, An, 303
Incredible, 5
Independence, 101
Indifference to Death, 367
Indifference to Life, 274
In-door Relief, 185
Industry and Perseverance, 212
Industry of the English People, 307
Inevitable Misfortune, An, 352
Information easily Acquired, 326
Ingenious Device, An, 196
Ingenious Reply of a Soldier, 37
Ingenuousness, 104
Ingratitude, 58, 283
Inhospitable Irishman, An, 364
In Memoriam, 320
Inquest Extraordinary, 97, 312
Inquest--not Extraordinary, 132
Inquests Extraordinary, 102
Inscription on Inscriptions, An, 2
Insurance Assurance, 360
In Suspense, 27
Interested Inquiry, 357
In the Background, 230
In the Dark, 218
Introductory Ceremony, An, 67
Intruder Rebuked, The, 30
In Want of a Husband, 231
Ireland's Forgery, 134
Irish and Scotch Loyalty, 290
Irish Imprudence, 291
Irishman's Notion of Discount, An, 282
Irishman's Plea, An, 212
Iron Duke, The, 118
"I Takes 'em as they Come", 341
"I've Done the same Thing often", 103
JAMES SMITH AND JUSTICE HOLROYD, 235
Jemmy Gordon, 256
Jest of Ancestry, The, 176
Jew's Eye to Business, A, 286
Johnson and Mrs. Siddons, 128
Johnson, Dr., 190
Johnson, Dr., without Variation, 71
Johnson's, Dr., Opinion of Mrs. Siddons, 197
Joint Concern, A, 46
Joke from the North, A, 366
Jolly Companions, 256
Jonson, Ben, 99
Judge in a Fog, A, 199
Judgment, 262
"Junius" discovered, 11
Jury Case, A, 350
Just as Wonderful, 312
Just Debtor, A, 56
Justice Midas, 332
Justice not always Blind, 144
KEAN'S IMPROMPTU, 100
Keen Reply, 83
Keeping a Conscience, 126
Keeping a Promise, 117
Keeping It to Himself, 333
Keeping Time, 236
Kew, The Way to, 297
Killed by His Own Remedy, 338
Kind Hint, A, 336
Kitchener and Colman, 145
Knotty Point, A, 47
Knowing Best, 183
Knowing His Man, 91, 313
Knowing His Place, 69
LADY ANNE, 120
Lamb and Erskine, 123
Lamb and Sharp Sauce, 212
Lame Beggar, The, 308
Landlord and Tenants, 48
Large, but Not Large Enough, 219
Last Resource, A, 274
"Last War," The, 165
Late and Early, 203
Late Dinner, 112
Late Discoverer, A, 330
Late Edition, A, 15
Latimer, 295
Latin for Cold, The, 123
Latin Gerunds, On the, 135
Law and Physic, 181, 333
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