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[To rss Emma 07 yes "SescrAto."1 Slit,—I actually heard the

following two "hulls," if that word correctly expresses them, and they may be considered worthy of reproduction : (1) A church official in an argumentative speech at a parish meeting triumphantly asserted : "No, gentlemen, the laugh is on the other leg." (2) We have in our churchyard an old tomb which is said to be empty, there being no inscription on it The tradition is that it was erected beforehand by a local resident for himself and his wife, but, for some unknown reason, was never occupied. Our parish clerk once expressed the prevailing doubt about it in the following unusual. way : " They tell me there is hardly anybody

buried in that grave."—I am, Sir, &e., C. J. B.