Bon-mots of the Nineteenth Century

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...round in his kitchen, and Passion week in the parlour."--/VA/v JEKYLL, in a barrister's chambers, saw a squirrel in a revolving cage; ' Ah! poor devil," said he, "he's going the Home Circuit."--A/vv---QBSERVING a certain Serjeant, well known for his prosiness, bustling into a court where he was engaged in a case, Jekyll wrote the following impromptu--"Behold the Serjeant, full of fire, Long shall his hearers rue it; His purple garments came from Tyre His arguments go to it." J VERY small man named Else, an attorney, approached Jekyll one day in great indignation, saying--' Sir, I hear you have called me a pettifogging scoundrel. Have you done so, sir?" "No, sir," replied the wit with a look of contempt. "I never said you were a pettifogger or a scoundrel; but I did say you were little Else." old lady having been brought forward as a witnass to prove a tender having been made, Jekyll made the following punning epigram--"Garrow, forbear! that tough old jade Can never prove a tender maid"--fiJA/V--JEKYLL had been asked to dine at Lansdowne House on the day when the ceiling fell down, but had to refuse, having an engagement to meet the judges. Speaking of this he said--"I had been asked to Ruat Ctelum, but dined instead with Fiat Justitia."; JJORE personal than polite was Jekyll's remark to a Welsh judge who had been suitor for all manner of places--" As you have asked the Ministry for everything else, ask them for a piece of soap and a nail brush." J N making a speech at a dinner of the Fishmongers' Company, Erskine hesitated and made a sad job of it, so Jekyll enquired whether it was in honour of the Company that he floundered so. £RABB ROBINSON writes as follows in his ...