Savory Morsels.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4481, 16 May 1883, Page 2

Savory Morsels.

"I hope, sor, you will 'assist a poor man whose house and everything that was in it, including me family, sor, was burned up two months ago last Thursday, >or." The merchant to whom this appeal was addressed, while very philanthropic, is also very cautious, so he asked : "Have you any papers or certificates to show that you lost anything by the firo ?" .■& I did hare a certificate, sor, signed before"'!* notary public, to that effect, but it was burned up, sor, in the house with me family and the rest of me effects." ' A man is known by the company he declines to keep. ' , A cynical old bachelor says that "lovers are like armies; they get along well en°ush till the engagement begins." I \f noi? e yon'wiH'be able to support me, said a young lady, while walking out one evening with her intended, during a slippery state of the pavements. "Why —ay—yes," said the somewhat hesitating swam, "with some little assistance from your father!" There was some confusion and a profound silence when this lover's colloquy had ended. " I understand, Uncle Amos, (hat you have quit preaching," said the secretary ot state to an old colored man, who for years has had charge of a church in Little ?tol Yes, boss, I'se stepped aside." Why did you quit ? " "Wall, dar was numerous pressures brought ter bar agin the old man. .Da charged me with steahn a ham, for one thing, und 'vised me ter_ quit." » Why, they couldn't prove that you stole the ham, could ? 7l"'i '\ N,°' *? ht da "ouldn'i, and ef I hadn t knoledged it da neber would hab R r pa» ed«lV "Whydid you acknowledge t r 1 K.ase da found de hani uuder mw bed,aaU. -