Show tho the wit of words worda A pan to its kind should contain two distinct meaning athe ilis on ona common and obvious t the h a other mot more remote and in tho the notice which the mind takes taken of the relation between those two bets beta of 0 words and ia the surprise which that relation excites the picas ure of ft a pun consists abisa hamilton in her hec book on ed education clea tion mentions mention the tha instance of a boy so 0 o very neglectful that he could sever never bo be brought to road read the word patriarchs but whenever he met with it he called it ft partridges it could hardly be considered lie a were mere piece of 0 negligence for it appeared to her that the boy in calling them partridges was wa making game of the stabs now hero here are ara two distinct meanings mean ingi contained in the thelama same phrase for to malio game of the patriarchs patria toba is i to laugh at them or to make game of them la Is by a tory every extravagant and laughable sort of ignorance iga orance of words voids to them among pheasants partridges ei and aad 0 ther other such delicacies delka olea which the tha low law takes takei under its protection mid and calli ali game and the whole plea enre derived fron from the pun pan consists consist in the sudden ladden discovery that two such different meanings meaning are referable to one form of ex pr crossion ossion iun I 1 have hare very little to 0 o say eay about puns pung they are aie in ia very bad repute and so they ought to ta be the wit of language gaii is bo miserably interior inferior to the wit of ideas thit that it Is 1 very de d edly driven out of good goad company sometimes indeed a pun pan makes its it appearance which sms tor for a moment to redeem its a species but wo we must not le be deceived by them it Is 1 a rad radically radio leally ally bal bad race of 01 wit by unremitting per mention locution it t kal hm leen been nt at last lant got under and d driven ri you into cloisters from whence it mutt never again be ba infrared fared to 10 emerge into the light of the world Y amith |