, Mr. Abernethy, what is the cure for gout?" asked an indolent and luxurious citizen. "Live upon sixpence a day, and

    earn it

   !" was the pithy answer.

    Several

   young gentlemen once got up a play at Cambridge. On the day of representation one of the performers took it into his head to make an excuse, and his part was obliged to be read. Hobhouse came forward to apologize to the audience, and told them that

    a

   Mr. —— had declined to perform his part. The gentleman was highly indignant at the "

    a

   ," and had a great inclination to pick a quarrel with Scrope Davies, who replied that he supposed Mr. —— wanted to be called

    the

   Mr. So-and-so. He ever afterwards went by the name of the "

    Definite Article

   ."

    Rogers

   , when a certain M.P., in a review of his poems, said "he wrote very well for a banker," wrote, in return, the following:—

    The

   present Lord Chancellor remarked of a young barrister who had just made a speech of more poetry than law, "Poor young man, he has studied the

    wrong Phillips

   ."

   "

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