Show joa joe miller jokes JOB jos gihei name is a household W word ord and it ills is a 11 proverb to pay fay of a stale that is 13 a very old joe born ill in 1684 and alid died ill tu 1733 and iiii h clin clia rictor ia ii we well I up U in 11 his Is epitaph which wax ayas visible on oil his tombstone as late as a J in st clements Clemen 05 burial ground portugal street now destroyed here lye the remains of honest jo miller tiller who was a tender tonder husband a sincere sincero friend a facetious companion and an excellent comedian etc hia his jests were collected by john a dramatist and first published in n 1739 the chapbook chap book version published in 1750 has many extraneous jokes but those given below are joes and may be found in Mott leys lcy first edition an irish lawyer of the temple having occasion occasion to go to dinner left this direction in the key hole gone to the elephant and castle where you will find me and if you cannot read this carry it to the station stationery ers and he be will read it for you ta A gentleman who had been a hooting shooting brought home a small bird with him and having an all irish servant he asked him if ho he had bad shot that little bird yes lie told him arrah arrab by my faith replied the iri irishman hm ii it was not worth the powder and khot for this little t thing hing would have died lied in the fall A young fellow riding down a steep hi hill ll 11 doubting if the foot of it was hoggish called out to a clown that was ditching and asked if it was hard at the bottom ay answered the countryman it is hard enough at the bot bottom torn I warrant you but in half a dozen steps the horse home sank bank up to the saddle addle births girths which made the young gal f fant nt whip and spur and utter oaths you rascal said lie to the ditcher thou not tell me that it was hard at the bottom ay paid said the di ditcher teber but you ore are not half to the bottom yet an englishman and a welshman di disputing ut n in in whose country was the dmn best t biving living said the welshman there ia li euch such noble housekeeping in walea wales that I have known above a dozen cooks to be employed at one wedding dinner ay AT I replied the englishman that was because every man toasted hia his own cheese A certain lady of quality sending her irish footman to f fetch etch home a pair of new stays strictly charged him to take a coach if it rained for fear of wetting them buta but a great shower falling the fellow returned with the stays dripping wet and being severely reprimanded for not doing as he was ordered he be said lie had obeyed his orders how then answered thi lady could the slays be wet isyou if you took them in the coach with you xo o replied honest teague eagle I know my place better I did not get into the coach but rode behind as I always used to one more extract must close this notice of joe millers alli ailers jokes A country clergyman meeting a neighbor who never came to church although an old man mart about i sixty hc gave him some reproof on that account I and asked him if he never read at home no replied tho clown I cannot read I dare say said the parson you u dont know who made you ou augot got not I in troth said the countryman A little boy comina coining by at tho the time who made you my child said the parson god air sir eaid said the boy why look you ton there the clergyman iare are you not ashamed to hear a child ofa of or ayears years tell me who made hima him when you who aro are so old a man cannot ah said the countryman it is isn no wonder that he eliou should id remember he was made but the other da day T and it is a long along while n waster since I wa was road made Chambers ibera journal |