The Enchiridion of Wit. the Best Specimens of English Conversational Wit
The Enchiridion of Wit. the Best Specimens of English Conversational Wit
William Shepard Walsh
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Lady Morley once sat next to Rogers at a dinner- party. It was at a time when the poet of Mem- ory was losing his, and had fallen into a habit of repetition. Having amused his neighbor by a very good story, he began, a few minutes later, to tell it to her again. Something, however, suggesting to him the idea that he^was doing so, he stopped suddenly, and said, '* I've told you that before, haven't I?" The situation was an embar- rassing one, but the quick-witted beauty was equal to the occasion.... '* Oh, yes," she replied, " to be sure ; you were beginning to tell it to me when the fish came round, and I am dying to hear the end of Uy Up and Down. Luttrell said of the London climate that ^' on a fine day it was like looking up a chimney ; on a rainy day like looking down one." Poor Relations. Luttrell used to say, "I hate the sight of m(jnkeys, they remind me so of poor relations." d by Google THE ENCHIRIDION OF WIT. 203 Raking the Ashes. In talking of the Eumelian Club, of which Ashe was the founder, somebody said that a son of that Ashe was at present chairman of it.
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