We cannot insert jokes on the number of SMITHS in the worldexcept as advertisements.

It seemed without sense or meaning to me; and after the excellent joke about his superior interest in his master to mine in my father, was dismissed lightly enough from my mind.

Many a time has he been goaded to frenzy by the cruel sneers and jokes of those who should have been proud of his talents; and rushed with wild-eyed eagerness down to the gentle frog pond, intending there to bury his sorrows beneath its glassy surface.

It was a long time before the ancients received credit for their stories of showers of stones; and all were ready to joke with Butler, at the story of the Thracian rock, which fell in the river Aegos: "For Anaxagoras, long agon, Saw hills, as well as you i'th' moon, And held the sun was but a piece Of red hot iron as big as Greece.

As he put it, there was no joke in sleeping in a room with a numerous family of healthy Irish in one corner and the pigsty in the other, while overhead a ragged colony of roosting fowls distributed their blessings impartially, and the whole place so full of peat smoke that it made a fellow sneeze his head off just to put it inside the doorway.

He seemed groping for the meaning of a joke at which he knew he ought to laugh.

"STODDART didn't try his good joke to-night.

It's too hot for any one to make jokes for other people.)

Dr. Johnson here threw out some jokes against Scotland.

" At which the others smiled, for Bluff's weakness regarding Frank's pretty sister was something of a joke among them.

He was a sensible chap, and took the joke as a wise man should, especially when the odds are all against him, albeit, it was somewhat rude.

Damerel grasped the tree he was resting against for support; a film came over his eyes; but a few rough jokes from Larkin recovered him, and hearing the military band in the distance, he endeavoured to forget his cares, and trudged on towards Honiton.

Its name will therefore be considered a joke by such as see the Point.

In the letter quoted above Lamb speaks of his purchaser as "Mr. Grig Junr.," more, I am inclined to think, from his desire to have his little joke than from mere inaccuracy, for he must have known the correct name of his purchaser.

These tricks were not always very good-natured, which may be said of many of his jokes out of the theatre.

His characters, although founded on Greek models, act, speak, and joke like Romans.

He was pointing us out to his companion, apparently joking over our appearance, in an endeavor to amuse.

A certain fatality, by the bye, had lately attended all Lancelot's efforts to shine; he never bought a new coat without tearing it mysteriously next day, or tried to make a joke without bursting out coughing in the middle . . .

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

The young gentlemen stared at the veiled lady and her grim escort, joked under their breath, and looked wistfully at the suppressed cigars, but behaved with exemplary politeness till sleep overpowered them, and one after the other dropped off asleep to dream of their respective Gretchens.

" "I suppose Foss will be joking around town about our being afraid of the water," muttered; Dan.

" The darkness of London and Paris was a joke beside the darkness of Antwerp.

"You will find it is ill joking with Death.

It was a joke after his own heart.

He said huskily: "A joke along this line don't bring no laugh from me, governor.