"DID any of you ever see an elephant's skin?" asked the master of an infant school in a fast neighborhood.--"_I_ have!" shouted a six-year-old at the foot of the class. "Where?" inquired old spectacles, amused by his earnestness. "_On the elephant_!" was the reply. CCXXXV.--MISER'S CHARITY. AN illiterate person, who always volunteered to "go round with the hat," but was suspected of sparing his own pocket, overhearing once a hint to that effect, replied, "Other gentlemen puts down what they thinks proper, and so do I. Charity's a private concern, and what I give is _nothing to nobody_." CCXXXVI.--SHAKING HANDS. AT a duel the parties discharged their pistols without effect, whereupon one of the seconds interfered, and proposed that the combatants should shake hands. To this the other second objected, as unnecessary,--"For," said he, "their hands have been _shaking_ this half-hour." CCXXXVII.--MILTON ON WOMAN. MILTON was asked by a friend whether he would instruct his daughters in the different languages: to which he replied, "No, sir; one tongue is sufficient for a woman." CCXXXVIII.--EPIGRAM. (On bank notes being made a legal tender.) THE privilege _hard_ money to demand, It seems but fair the public should surrender; For I confess I ne'er could understand Why cash called _hard_, should be a legal _tender_. CCXXXIX.--A GOOD REASON. "THAT'S a pretty bird, grandma," said a little boy. "Yes," replied the old dame, "and _he_ never cries."--"That's because he's never washed," rejoined the youngster. CCXL.--ON FARREN, THE ACTOR. IF Farren, cleverest of men, Should go to the right about, What part of town will he be then? Why, "Farren-done-without!" CCXLI.--PADDY'S LOGIC. "THE sun is all very well," said an Irishman, "but the moon is worth two of it; for the moon affords us light in the night-time, when we _want it_, whereas the sun's with us in the day-time, when we have _no occasion for it_." CCXLII.--WARNING TO LADIES. BEWARE of falling in love with a pair of moustaches, till you have ascertained whether their wearer is the original proprietor. CCXLIII.--A MOT OF DE FOE. WHEN Sir Richard Steele was made a member of the Commons, it was expected from his writings that he would have been an admirable orator; but not proving so, De Foe said, "He had better have continued the _Spectator_ than the _Tatler_." CCXLIV.--A FAIR REPULSE.