Readiness Of Repartee

"Vo find in the Gmtlemen's Magaeine, an anecdote of George IV., which is said to bo ncw to print : At a small dinner-party at the Carlton House, Colonel Hainlyiï, onc of the boon companions of the prince, told a story whiob, like most of the storics of the n '1,'cin 'y, was more distinguished by its jmiiit thiui Lts propriety, When Colonel lliimlyn finisned it, tlio "first gentleman in Enrope" filled his glass and throw lis contente into his iueatfs face, gaying, "Hamlyn, you aro a blackguard."' Waat was the Colonel to do? ïo challenge the regent was treason, and yet to return the insult in kind was t tftke a course which must havo f:oinpelled tho prince as a gentleman, to challenge the colonel, or io ask some one to take uj the quarrel for him. And vet to sit still was iinjiossible. Colonel Hamlyn solved the diÏBculty by fillíhít his t;-)ass and throwing the wino into i ie face of his next companion. "His Boyal Highnesa' toasi : pass it on I" ïhis wis wit in action. It sealed Colon ! Iiamlyn's ftiendship witli Ueorge IV. ilyn," he said, with a slap on 0x6 ghoulder, " you're a oapitol follow. Here's I to you." A thirsty Vermontor hitohed his horse I . ; Creigh.t car standing on a side-traci while lie proceedcd towUrd a rfèighl) saloon, in quegt of " tanglefoot." 3Vfoantime. th Ëreight train mored on, and when Cu1 retürnod his teaxo was ijiissing. Proceeding up the track, he cito to a wecKi d wagon, a jvtieel hare, n spoke tin re, afM soon ajFter tumijiod apon th poor bocae'whióh had been rhoked t.i d".ith ere tho halter parted.