Good Things for Railway Readers; One Thousand Anecdotes of Convivialists, Wits And Humourists, Oddities And Eccentricities ..
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Sir, I stood that. And then he abused the farmers. Well, sir, I stood it all. But then he took to abusing the yeo- manry. Now, sir, you ken I couldna stand that, for I am a yeoman raysel : so I was under the necessity of being a wee rude-like till him. So I seized him by the cuff of the neck : ' Do you see that window, sir ? Apologeeze, apologeeze this very minute, or I'll just put your head through the window.' Wi'that he apologeezed. ' Now, sir,' I said, ' you'll gang out o' the coach.' And w...i' tliat I opened the door, and * " The Derby dilly, carrying three in- sides." — Canning. GOOD THINGS. 117 shot him outintilthe road; and that's all I ever saw o' the Radical." — Burgon's Life of Tytler. GENERAL WOLPE. When, in 1759, Pitt entrusted General Wolfe with the expedition against Quebec, on the day preceding his embarkation, Pitt, desirous of giving his last verbal instructions, in- vited him to dinner at Hayes, Lord Temple being the only other guest. As the evening advanced, Wolfe, heated perhaps by his own aspiring thoughts, and the unwonted society of statesmen, broke forth in a strain of gasconade and bravado.
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