WHEN Brennan, the noted highwayman, was taken in the south of Ireland, a banker, whose notes at that time were not held in the highest estimation, assured the prisoner that he was very glad to see him there at last. Brennan, looking up, replied, "Ah! sir! I did not expect that from _you_: for you know that, when all the country refused your notes, I _took_ them." CCLX.--NOT SO BAD FOR A KING. GEORGE IV., on hearing some one declare that Moore had murdered Sheridan, in his late life of that statesman, observed, "I won't say that Mr. Moore has _murdered_ Sheridan, but he has certainly _attempted his life_." CCLXI.--A BAD CROP. AFTER a long drought, there fell a torrent of rain; and a country gentleman observed to Sir John Hamilton, "This is a most delightful rain; I hope it will bring up _everything out of the ground_."--"By Jove, sir," said Sir John, "I hope not; for I have sowed three wives in it, and I should be very sorry to see them come up again." CCLXII.--"NONE SO BLIND," ETC. DANIEL PURCELL, who was a non-juror, was telling a friend, when King George the First landed at Greenwich, that he had a full view of him: "Then," said his friend, "you know him by sight."--"Yes," replied Daniel, "I think I know him, _but I can't swear to him_." CCLXIII.--DUPLEX MOVEMENT. A WORTHY alderman, captain of a volunteer corps, was ordering his company to fall back, in order to dress with the line, and gave the word, "_Advance_ three paces _back-wards_! march!" CCLXIV.--COULEUR DE ROSE. AN officer in full regimentals, apprehensive lest he should come in contact with a chimney-sweep that was pressing towards him, exclaimed, "Keep off, you black rascal."--"You were as black as me before you were _boiled_," cried sooty. CCLXV.--A FEELING WITNESS. A LAWYER, upon a circuit in Ireland, who was pleading the cause of an infant plaintiff, took the child up in his arms, and presented it to the jury, suffused with tears. This had a great effect, until the opposite lawyer asked the child, "What made him cry?"--"_He pinched me_!" answered the little innocent. The whole court was convulsed with laughter. CCLXVI.--EXTREMES MEET. AN Irish gardener seeing a boy stealing some fruit, swore, if he caught him there again, he'd lock him up in the _ice-house_ and _warm_ his jacket. CCLXVII.--DR. WEATHER-EYE. AN Irish gentleman was relating in company that he _saw_ a terrible wind the other night. "_Saw_ a wind!" said another, "I never heard of a wind being seen. But, pray, what was it like!"--"_Like_ to have blown my house about my ears," replied the first. CCLXVIII.--HESITATION IN HIS WRITING.