Show HUMOR UNDER difficulties some if instances of 1 brig lri lit I 1 retorts 0 one of th alie e of the celebrated bishop bunin was also made din during ing lus his last 1 ait allness lie ile had inquired what bad been tile hie M ets ot of hia two archdeacons arch deacons rb arges and was told that one was on oil the art of making wi and 41 the other on oil YArds oh I 1 cc mid the dying bishop composition coin poi po i t ion und decompo decoi adiong the lecul larl tirs of selwyn Sul ivyn N aih attracted attention were wc ro chiq lil love of children and ilk hii morbid taste to tic benth or the drad dead not an execution him nm rind and he is 13 said to have anade it journey to paris jaris to see ra mieng broken on oil the n wheel heel this last pro wa was s the subject of many it a joke among his intimates of the first lord laird I 1 was waa the bi dt bt when on oil his death deathbed hed lie was told that tbt selwyn hal had ballul to inquire after him the next time mr selwyn calls said lie he him up for if I 1 fun am alive I 1 shall bo be delighted to se bici ami if I 1 am deadie dead he will bo be glad rand to iee ice i ce me inc finally as grimly cani al was the alir reply of william taylor or willie allio harrow is as ho he was commonly called beina beiji N cited in ili III his lat ty by a cler clergyman gyNan lie wis was asked it if lie were prepared for another world deed sir said willie willi 1 I dinna ken it I 1 need trouble abbot it ft for or it if the folk there lira are like tile folk here pay unco linco littia attention to a cuir body like inc the field of battle ha has 4 produced many an example of grint grim humor and a capital story ia n told of how when sir Willi william milliant ant wa was 4 about to charge ch irge with liis his troop at the famous conil conflict let of edgehill at the opening ball of the parliamentary campaign against charles charlea 1 I lie he said to hh billi young scap scapegrace grace of a son jack it if I 1 should be killed lad you yon will have enough to spend to which the rogue answered and egad father it if I 1 should be killed fillol you will edic enough to pay why an you so melancholy asked the duke of Marlboroug li of a soldier after the battle of cl Illen beim 1 I am thinking replied the man mail how ow much blood I 1 have shed pence another retort of one of tho rank rani and file conveyed a 1 well merited rebuke A soldier had hn his two hands carried olt off at t the wrists wrist by a hot ills his colonel offered him a crown Col colonel colonal replied the man mail reproachfully it was not my gloves but my hands that I 1 lost one once writes mr lawrence oliphant 1 I was in a corni Ix mine sonic some hundreds of feet down in the bowels of thi earth arav crawling ling down a ladder and feeling that the ture was every moment getting wanner walmer I 1 said to a mirler miner 1 who ho wits accompanying is getting very lot down here far think it is is to the infernal regions 1 I dont know exactly he replied bu but it it if you let go you will be b there in two minutes sheridan too when dying on being requested to undergo an operation humorously replied that he had bad already submitted to two tio which were enough tor for oin ami mans lifetime being asked what they were he answered liar ing my haircut and sitting tor for my picture there is n V sly insinuation in thu following which aich no jill doubt was waa duly appreciated by tile pelson t ta whom it was wa s addressed even dueling too lids lias discovered men who vill w ill jet to the very last mid and asan as an example of grim humor under uncomfortable circumstances tile the following would be exceedingly hard to beat illde M da nial ilal saignes was a determined duelist flading quarreled baith a brother officer they agreed to fight out the dispute in ili the very room where it took place ii when hen il de idal Malsa saignes igny adversary managed to run him through the boil body yand and uail dail airna him against aiese the d door this is all very well said the transfixed duelist but pray liow IN are arc you to get out dr lead head and dr il fought under the gates of gi aham college woody woodwards ards foot slipped ana ho he was at the mere mc rc of his opponent take your life exclaimed dr mead anthina An Au thins thing but your ictor ted tile the prost iaU man inan londom standard |