inquired for Mr. Kemble: "He's just _gone off_," replied another,
evidently connected with the theatre. Such is the force of habit.

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The late Murgravine of Anspach wrote an impromptu charade, and presented
it to her husband, Lord C., as the person most interested in the subject
of it, and most capable of judging of its truth:--

"Mon premier est un tyran-- mari-
Mon second est un monstre-- age;
Et mon tout est--le diable-- mariage."


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A farmer applied to a county magistrate for a warrant:--"A warrant, for
what?" says the magistrate, "To _take up the weather_, please your
worship."

P.T.W.

N.B. Warrant refused.

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CONVERSATION, (from Swift.)