The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-12-13 00:00:00

Fellness weeds, autos forovelor tpse."
(Fate le the Lick, the keeper barer 14111.)

TEE WRONG LEG.—Mathews being invited by
D'Eaville to dine one day with him at Brighton,
D'Egaille inquired what was Mathews favourite dist.?
A matted leg of pork. with sage and onions. This
was pravi led; and D'Egville,carving. swore that he
could not tind the stuffing. He turned the joint all
over, but in vain. Poole was at table, and, in his
quiet way, said "Don't make yourself unhappy, D'Eg-
vane ; perhaps it is in the other leg."

BURGESS AND THE CHEESE. Burgess was much
cont,ed and caressed in private society, and a wide
latitude was allowed even to his practical jokes. While
dining one day with a gentdman who occasionally at.
tended his chapel, a huge Cheshire cheese w.is brought
on the table uncut, and placed before the preacher.
" Where shall I cut it ?" said he. "Anywhere you
please, Mr. Burgess." answered his host. t'lo in this,
without more ado, Daniel handed it to the servant,
desiring him to carry it to his house, and he would cut
it at home.

FISHOP BONNER.—When Henry VIII. proposed to
semi Bisuop Busuer to France, in a diplomatic capa-
city, the kilig t.•ld him that he must speak to the
French monarch in s very lofty tone, at the same time
instroc.ing him chat he had to ea). "Pl-ase your
Majesty," quoth the bishop. "if I should hold an 1
haughty labguage. Bing Francis, in all probability,
would order my had to be chopped off.—" If he dared
to do such a thing," cried Henry, I would chop off
thi beivis of ten thousand Frenchmen for it."—" Truly
your Maj,ety," objected Bonner, " brit, perhaps, not
one of thwe heaclq wont I fl my shoulders."

LAMBS AND ERRRlNE.—C..nneellor Lamb, an old
mein wimn Lord Breathe WA, in the height ot hie repm
tati in, was of timid manoin and nervous disposition.
ma:tally tattooing his plealings with an apology to that
effect; and on one iocasion, when opposed, in some
MUIR., to Erskine, he happened to remark that "he felt
hirpself growing more and more tiruid m he grew
older." "No wonder." replied the witty, bat relent-
less borriAer ; "every one knows the older • 1 amb
grows, the more sheeptsh he becomes."
TAKING 0. PRACTICAL VIEW OF IT !—ln Dr.
Gutherte's Autobiocrsphy a story is told uf an exami-
nation of witnesses in • charge of drunkennirs against
a minister.. Beddes other proofs of drunkenness, hav-
, .

log drawn this out of • witness, that the minister on
on one occasion as he lolled over the side of the puloit
in fact, ur to stood upright—said that be
loved his pe tple so much that be would carry thetu all
to Hem', n en his back, Dr. Gritherie asked him,
"Now John, when you heard him say so what
im•mession did so strange a speech make on you? "
O•hers, to the same question, as unwilling witnes-cis
M John, bad already said that, though they would
not say he was drunk at the time, they certamly
thought is. But John showed binnedi equal to
the OCC1.101), "Wed," he rerlied, " Alttdeer
Guthrie, I'll jut tell you what I thooght. There was
a great fat wde, a eee sitting its the seat before toe,
sad thinks I—' •My lad, if you set if to the kingdom
of Heaven with that wife on your back, my castle,
you'd no be back for the rest o' us in • hurry."