The Merry Companion for All Readers : Containing a Choice Selection of the Most Humourous Anecdotes, Droll Sayings, Wit, Fun, and Comical Incidents, Both in Prose and Poetry; Calculated to Enliven Dul PDF

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Mr. Brown. Pray, Jane, what on earth is the reason I am kept waiting for my breakfast in this way?<br><br>Jane.

Please, sir, the rolls isn't come, and there's no bread in the house.<br><br>Mr. Brown. Now, upon my word! How can you annoy me with such trifles?<br>No bread? then bring me some toast. [Exit Jane in dismay.<br><br>I thing I see him!

Ragged dressing gown; beard two days old; depressed dickey; scowling face; out at elbows, out of sorts, and - out of 'toast!' Poor thing!

Don't it make my heart ache? How should he be expected to know that bread was the forerunner of toast, without a wife to tell him?<br><br>Bachelors never cut their 'wisdom teeth!' It is astonishing how people can make themselves merry at their expense.

I consider their case calls for the deepest commiseration.

It is not toast they want - it is a wife! Toast will naturally follow, and in fine order too! But, bless your soul! the poor creatures don't know half the time what ails them.