The jest of the day resides in the success with which credulity is imposed upon, and April is the month of easiest credulity.

"Can she have it, or was the old fool jesting with us?"

" "It is a bit open jest in front of here; but I took note that further to the westward was a little more of green," Sergeant Corney said, half to himself, and I knew he was picturing in his mind the two of us making the attempt where was not a blade of grass to give shelter, for the "green" of which he spoke was nothing more than the fragment of a bush near the stockade.

I did jest like the others dolike Kleppish is doin' right nowbut the reg'lar voters don't understand politics, and when the howl went up about graft, backed by Kleppish's bought-up newspapers, they turned me down cold.

We were abroad upon a lake in the full moonwe were lost upon a mountaintwice a canoe upsetthere were the usual jests about cooking.

Sure, it's a hero's mind ye show when you can find heart to make merry at a time like this!" "Yes'he jests at love who never felt a throb.'

They was jest as pert an' sassy that last day" Angy laughed.

Well, sir, jest on. PHIL.

Why don't you fellers" he added with a malicious grin, "go back on the mother business, and give the old man a chance, jest for a change?"

But all the time the Sheriff said within himself, "Thy jest to me of Robin Hood shall cost thee dear, good fellow, even four hundred pounds, thou fool."

"It is a common jest," says Reginald Scot, writing in the time of Elizabeth, "It is a common jest among the watermen of the Thames to show the parish church of Stone to their passengers, calling the same by the name of the 'Lanterne of Kent'; affirming, and that not untruly, that the said church is as light (meaning in weight not in brightness) at midnight as at noonday."

They were very merry, even boisterous in this unaccustomed work, responding to rough jests by resounding slashes of the tightly wrung garments upon the heads or backs of the unwary wags.

He looked at Grampus half quizzically, but in a manner not to offend, and as if it were merely a jest over a matter already settled, said: "Would you give your daughter?" Grampus looked at him puzzled, and then, responding to the joke which seemed but one of hopelessness, he said: "

Go to that barm-froth poet, and to him say, He quite hath lost the title of his play; His calf-skin jests from hence are clean exil'd.

It is a broacher of more news than hogsheads, and more jests than news, which are sucked up here by some spungy brain, and from thence squeezed into a comedy.

My father, that lived here before me (and died of a jest out of season), was skilled in herbsand I am his son!

Last time were yesterday, jest afore Master Georgy come 'ome.

"But it is evil jesting on this side of the border.

He wrote satirical pieces, which are lost; some said that they were the joint work of two friends, Dionysius and Zopyrus of Colophon, in whom it was one jest the more to ascribe their jesting to Menippus.

Whoever you may be, I caution you against rashly defaming the author of this work, or cavilling in jest against him.

"All we got t' dew is t' keep breathin' jest es nat'ral 'n' easy es can be till we fergit how.

It was not the usual giggling, the usual exchange of badinage and coarse jest beyond the closed curtains.

" Whilst the lords jested amongst themselves in this fashion, they climbed the tower, and were seated in the chamber.

Tale after tale, jest after jest, fell from Wilhelm's lips.

For this reason, all those that otherwise approve of jests in some cases, and facete companions, (as who doth not?) let them laugh and be merry, rumpantur et illa Codro, 'tis laudable and fit, those yet will by no means admit them in their companies, that are any way inclined to this malady: non jocandum cum iis qui miseri sunt, et aerumnosi, no jesting with a discontented person.