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Evening Post, Issue 116, 23 June 1865, Page 2

When Cobbctt kept a stationer's shop at Philadelphia, and was writing under the name of 'Peter Porcupine,' a young sub went to buy some quills, and thinking to pass a joke upon Peter, iisked him if they were not Porcupine's quills ? Upon which Cobbett, taking up v the redcoat's money, drily replied, making at the same time a very profound bow, " Oh, no, sir ! they are a goose's " A celebrated dandy was one evening in company with a young lady, and observing her kiss her favourite poodle, he advanced, and b°?ged the like favor, remarking that she ought to have as mtfch charity for him as ehe had shown to the dog. " Sir," said the belle, •• I never kissed my dog when he was a puppy." Quin's Jests.— Hjjome of Quin's jests were perfect. W hen Wafrbnrton said, "By what law can the exerution of Charles 1. be justified ?" Quin. replied, "By all the laws he had left them." No wonder Walpole applauded him. The bishop bade the player remember that the regicides came to violent ends, but Quirt gave him a worse blow. '« That, your lordship," he said, " if I am not mistaken, was also the case with the twelve apostles." Quin could overthrow even Foote. They had at one time had a quarrel and were reconciled, but Foote was still a little sore. "Jemmy," said he, "you should not have said that I had but one shirt, and that I lay in bed while it was washed." " Sammy," replied the actor, " I never could have suid so, for I never knew that you had a shirt to wash." — Thornbury's Haunted London.