Show STORIES OF HEADY READY WIT retorts that made the reputation Repute tl of their Utter ers historic retorts almost invariably illustrate the quickness which Is eg es t tn the success 0 of this specie spades of wit jekyll was aa as famous at the bar as was dunning tor for hia his brilliant repartee hearing that a very empty headed beaded person had gone to greece he M I 1 doted at once to the greeks tool fool james smith joint author alth his brother horace of rejected ReJect eI addresses being challenged tor for a motto on an rooks and crows responded instantly with the line the cause my soul the cause to charles lamb henry crabb robinson lawyer and de companion waa was speaking ol 01 bis his first brief when lamb said to him did you not exclaim thou first great cause least understood when alfred tennyson appeared in the oxford theater to receive his D C IA degree his disheveled hair and gen rally negligent state provoked the undergraduates into greeting ahu with the inquiry did your mother call your early call you early alfred dear sydney smith perhaps despised pet dogs as heartily as do some of us and this may have given the eting sting to his answer to the lady who begged from him a motto jor her poodle spot out damned spot was his suggestion and it was no DO doubt too near the truth to be adopted nashville american |