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The Jest Book

Mark Lemon

Book Overview: 

Collection of humorous anecdotes and sayings.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .CCLXXX.—AN ORDER FOR TWO.

At the last rehearsal of "Joanna," Mr. Wild, the prompter, asked the author for an order to admit two friends to the boxes; and whether Mr. Cumberland was thinking of the probable proceeds of his play, or whether his anxiety otherwise bewildered him, cannot be ascertained; but he wrote, instead of the usual "two to the boxes"—"admit two pounds two."

CCCLXXXI.—EPIGRAM FROM THE ITALIAN. His hair so black,—his beard so gray,
'Tis strange! But would you know the cause?
'Tis that his labors always lay,
Less on his brain than on his jaws.
CCCLXXXII.—MARRIAGE.

A widower, having taken another wife, was, nevertheless, always paying some panegyric to the memory of his late spouse, in the presence of his present one; who one day added, with great feeling, "Believe me, my dear, nobody regrets her loss more than I do."

CCCLXXXIII.—FISHING FOR A COMPLIMENT.

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