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Show 8TOFIIE9 OF READY WIT. Retorts Th.it Mnile the Hrputstls" ef Thrir Uttrrers. Hi-torlc retort almost Invnrlnhly j riu.'ltali. ti.e iii;iknehs whth Is es- , Seulisl t'.' the success of this species , K i.r wit. Jekyll wus as famous at the bar as was Dunning for his brilliant repartee. Hearing that a very empty-hraiird empty-hraiird person had gone to flreece, he ivmted nt unci', "To the llret ks, fool. , isuuess " Ja a Smith, Joint author ' ' rllh his brother Horace of "Hctert'il . Addresses," being i tmllengcd for a i. X motto on rooks and crows, responded ... '. Instuntly with the line, "The cause, i j. my snul. the cause." To Charles Ijimb, ' Usury Crnbh Robinson, Inwyer and de- ' llRhtful companion, was speaking nf '' bis first brief when 1 nmh said to him, "Hid yuu not exclaim. 'Thou first ' ' arrest cause, least understood?'" ' When Alfred Tennyson apts-ared In 1, the Oxford theater to receive his D. C. . 1. degree his disheveled hair and gen- arally negligent state provoked the i under graduates Into greeting htm r with tho Inuulry, "Did your mother ( rail your early, cell you early, Alfred dear?" Sydney Smith perhaps de- i aplsed pet dogs as heartily as do some j ef us, and this may have given the v atlng tu his snrwer to the lady who I begged from him a motto for her I poodle. "Spot." "Out. damned Hoot!" J waa hla suggestion, and It waa no doubt too near the truth to be adopted. I Nashville American. |