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. 1886 Excerpt: ... to Dougla s Jerrold. SIANTON AM1 KGG. When asked (says the same authority) " Whose arc the best guns, Jlanton'a or Egg's?" Smith replied, " Egg's--for poaching," and in a second produced the following epigram: --' Two of a trade can ne'er agree. Each worries each, if able; In Mantou and in Egg we sec This proverb ...
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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. 1886 Excerpt: ... to Dougla s Jerrold. SIANTON AM1 KGG. When asked (says the same authority) " Whose arc the best guns, Jlanton'a or Egg's?" Smith replied, " Egg's--for poaching," and in a second produced the following epigram: --' Two of a trade can ne'er agree. Each worries each, if able; In Mantou and in Egg we sec This proverb proved no fable. "Each famed fur guns, whoso loud report Confirms the fact I'm brunching; Mantou's the best for lawful sport, But Egg's the best for poaching." "THE CAt'SE." John Henenge Jesse (writes J. C. Young in his Diary) gave me a curion instance of James Smith's ready wit. When he was preparing for the press his "Gleanings in Natural History," James Smith one day unexpectedly hurst in upon him. The moment he saw him, he said, "My dear Smith, you. have come to me in the nick of time as my good genins, to extricate me from a difficulty. You must know that to each of my chapters I have put an appropriate heading: I mean by that, that each chapter has prefixed to it;i quotation from some well-known author, suited to the subject treated of, with one exception. I have been cudgelling my brains for a motto for my chapter on'Crows and Rooks, 'and cannot think of one. Canyon?" "Certainly," ho said, with felicitous promptitude, "here is Oho from Shakspenrc for you!--'The cause (caws), my son, the cause (caws).'" RIVKRS AN1l THEIIi GENDERS. Young says elsewhere: --After dinner at Jesse's, with Smith as a companion, "By the bye," said I, "if I recollect rightly, in Latin the names of rivers are generally masculine." "I forget," said Smith, "but that can't be the invariable rule in English, for the two great American rivers must be feminine--M...
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