Sir Watkin Williams Wynne

   talking to a friend about the antiquity of his family, which he carried up to Noah, was told that he was a mere mushroom of yesterday. "How so, pray?" said the baronet. "Why," continued the other, "when I was in Wales, a pedigree of a particular family was shown to me: it filled five large skins of parchment, and near the middle of it was a note in the margin: '

    About this time the world was created

   .'"

    A certain

   noble lord being in his early years much addicted to dissipation, his mother advised him to take example by a gentleman, whose food was herbs and his drink water. "What! madam," said he, "would you have me to imitate a man who

    eats like a beast, and drinks like a fish

   ?"

    A poor

   woman, who had attended several confirmations,

   was at length recognized by the bishop. "Pray, have I not seen you here before?" said his lordship. "Yes," replied the woman, "I get me conform'd as often as I can; they tell me it is

    good for the rheumatis

   ."

    Lord Chancellor Hardwick's

   bailiff, having been ordered by his lady to procure a sow of a particular description, came one day into the dining-room when full of company, proclaiming with a burst of joy he could not suppress, "I have been at Royston fair, my lady, and I have got a sow exactly of

    your ladyship's size

   ."

    The

   following lines were written on seeing a farrago of rhymes that had been scribbled with a diamond on the window of an inn:—

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