In

   a small party, the subject turning on matrimony, a lady said to her sister, "I wonder, my dear, you have never made a

    match

   ; I think you want the

    brimstone

   ";—she replied, "No, not the

    brimstone

   , only the

    spark

   ."

    A coachman

   , extolling the sagacity of one of his horses, observed, that "if anybody was to go for to use him ill, he would

    bear malice

   like a

    Christian

   ."

    Dr. A.

   , physician at Newcastle, being summoned to a vestry, in order to reprimand the sexton for drunkenness, he dwelt so long on the sexton's misconduct, as to draw from him this expression: "Sir, I thought you would have been the last man alive to appear against me, as

    I have covered so many blunders of yours

   !"

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