Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1906-10-06
- FAMOUS PUNSTERS.
Good Things Said by Canon Anger
and Archbishop Burney.


The late Canon Anger, whether you
consider him as a biographer, preach
or or q man. was rather u charming
than q commanding personality, "niie
his life was as uneventful as tnat VI
anv country clergyman. The canons
friends. no doubt-and he had per-
feet genius for friendship-will ENJOY
his recently published letters. Even
the puns in the letters need, you teeL
FOR their apt and adequate setting tne
manner. voice and action of the canon
Here are two or three excellent speci-
mems of this sort Of wit, to when tne
canon was as much addicted as Lamp
himself:
"Ainger's made a canon, SO us SoiN'
Because so very well he read.
"Ah them" said Smith. demurely wink
Hes cannoned on the read I'm th'hk-
ing.
The chancellor had been less blamed
II some great preacher he had hahee;
",h then " said Smith. not even blushin'.
He'd then have cannoned on the cush'
ion"
Apropos Of punning Anger. In spite
OF being himself so inveterate pun
ster has said In q letter where he JUS
ti6es sallies of this sort in HOOD all
that can be said against the habit;
ITO hear of any ordinary man that
he makes puns is properly a warning
TO avoid his society, for with the tuhny
man the verbal coincidence Is every
thing. There is nothing underlying IL
or beyond il. The ordinary pun Is tor
the most part profoundly depressing
heinc generally an impertinence, but III
the hands of Hood the pun becomes an
element in his fancy, his humor, DIS
ethical teaching. even his pathos. As
ordinarily experienced, the pun Is the
irreconcilable enemy Of these Things
II could not dwell with them in one
house Hood saw and was the first &c
show that the pun might become even
their handmade
The best pun in the volume, ana, III
deed. the best pun have ever heard OF
its kind. is not Hoods or LAMBS OF
Ainger's. but one of Archdeacon Bur
ney's:
..The neatest thing l ever heard was
said by Archdeacon Burney the othel
day at a meeting at Rochester, where
list of subscriptions was being rea(
off. Mr.. -, $50 That's pretty good'
whispered Burney to his neighDor
Archdeacon Cheetham, who, knowing
that the giver was exceedingly rich
murmured, 1T ought TO have Deel
$500 All rejoined Burney instantly
he forgot the ought! "
wonder, by the way, If Archdeacol
Rurnev had had in his mind a simila
pun of Douglas Jerrolds. When tn
friend of a Micawber who was Away
being helped out of pecuniary dlfncu
ties called for the third time on DOut
las Jerrold to ask for another suoscriI
ton. the wit inquired
well, how much does - want I'M
timer
II think four and two naughts WI
about put him straight"
You may put me down for one 9
the naughts."
Here is a specimen Of Anglers III
promptu epigrams, one on cniid D'
ing born to his friend Haweis simu
taneously with the publication OF d
Music and Morals"
Little baby Haweis.
Playing with your corals,
Pa will mind your music
Who will mind your morals!
Anger. who was guest at the ma
rage of Hawies to Miss Joy, bride
diminutive as her bridegroom, sa
"she evidently didn't wish to be a J(
forever" and described their union
"a fortuitous concurrence of atoms
find that the well known nonsen
verse on Crockett's "Cleg Kelly" WI
an impromptu of the canons:
There was an old person OF Delhi
Who couldn't read Crocketts "Ci
Kelly"
When they said, Its the fashion
He replied, In passion,
What then? SO Is Marie CoreIh'
Aingers best known bon mot is pro
ably that on the style prescribed to I
contributors TO the Dictionary OF \
tional Biography" His suggesti
was "No flowers, by request" All
gether his biography leaves on you t
impression Of a gentle soul VINO W
an absolutely ideal friend. - Lond
Truth.