The joke here consists in the similarity of sound between despatch and batch, Will Summers mistaking, or pretending to mistake, in consequence.

As a joke Jadwiga.

" The Argo-robber knew that he must not joke when Apollo was angry, so he stood aside cautiously and said: "If you wish to cheat me, then in the future be Hermes and I will be Apollo.

One side does not keep another in the field the whole day in a one-day match except as a grisly kind of practical joke.

"Five pounds!" "You might tell us the joke.

" It is not always easy to appreciate a joke of the practical order if one has been made even merely part victim of it.

Until the sun has really got to work, it is no joke taking a high catch.

"What's the joke, Robinson?" asked Adair.

"There's no joke," said Robinson, with some haste.

What would you paint?" He looked around at me and then smiled as though he had a quiet little joke with himself.

"More chicken, Mr. Grayson," he would respondand thus we kept up a tenuous, but pleasant little joke between us.

So all the way across the mud the jolly fellows, working meanwhile like horses, laughed for the mere pleasure of laughing; and when we got to the boat the Negro in charge of her saw us laughing, and laughed too for company, without waiting to hear the joke; and as two of them took the canoe home, we could hear them laughing still in the distance, till the lonely loathsome place rang again.

Sinang was accustomed to joke about the great deal of Latin her father understood and the little her husband knew.

Even though here and there the line is brightened by the attractive appearance of the schoolgirls of the Escuela Municipal, with their sashes across their shoulders and their books in their hands, followed by their servants, yet scarcely a laugh resounds or a joke can be heardnothing of song or jest, at best a few heavy jokes or scuffles among the smaller boys.

"Don't make a joke of things!"

He may have foreseen the joke in store for his friend Mr. Leeds and has got out of the way.

As he approached his homethe house of a silversmith where he lived as a boarderhe tried to collect his thoughts and make a planto return to his town and avenge himself by showing the friars that they could not with impunity insult a youth or make a joke of him.

The mocked replied to the mockery with a laugh, to the governmental joke with a plate of pansit, and yet!

"Finding," says M. Baillet, "that the matter was no joke, M. Des Cartes leaped upon his feet in a trice, assumed a stern countenance that these cravens had never looked for, and addressing them in their own language, threatened to run them through on the spot if they dared to offer him any insult."

For, in a most abusive letter which he wrote "to a learned person," (meaning Wallis the mathematician,) he gives quite another account of the matter, and says (p. 8,) he ran home "because he would not trust his safety with the French clergy;" insinuating that he was likely to be murdered for his religion, which would have been a high joke indeedTom's being brought to the stake for religion.

What's this, you barnyard cockerel; are you trying to joke with me, man?

"Is it meant for a joke, Alison?

On its way to Bandinelli's studio the block fell into the Arrio, and it was a joke of the time that it had drowned itself to avoid its fate at the sculptor's hands.

Useless to explain that the backs of statues can be beautiful as the front; that one of the triumphs of great statuary is its equal perfection from every point; that the revolving stand was not made for a joke but for a serious purpose.

Clausen paid no heed to the sorry joke.