THE GATHERER.

"A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles."
SHAKSPEARE.

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CHANGING COIN.


Judge Gould married his daughter to Lord Cavan. A gentleman asking what
fortune, was answered, "it was all in _Gould_, and his lordship changed
it the first day."

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VOLTAIRE.


Voltaire said of a traveller, who made too long a stay with him at
Ferney, "Don Quixote took inns for castles, but Mr. ---- takes castles
for inns."

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