22 A COLLECTION OF JESTS. AN Iriſhman being aſked whether he or his brother were oldeſt? I am oldeſt, ſaid he, but if my brother live three years longer, we ſhall be both of An Iriſh ſervant being ſtruck by his maſter, cried out Devil take me, if I am certain whether he has kill'd me or not; but if I am dead it will afford me great ſatisfaction, to hear the old rogue was hanged for killing of me. A deaf fellow coming to London to ſell a turkey at Hyde-park-Corner, had occaſion to untruſs a point; a gentle- man paſſing by, intended to put a joke upon him; Countryman,' ſaid he there's a turd 'under you, the man thinking he aſked the price of his tur- key, ſaid, tour ſhillings, maſter I ſay there's a turd under you, ſaid the o ther. It is as good as ever you ate in your life, ſaid the fellow, either baked or roaſted. You raſcal, ſaid he, I could find in my heart to kick you ſoundly. Come chuſe, lays the fellow, for if you won't another will. One being at his wife's funeral, and the bearers going pretty quick along, he cried out to them, Don't go ſo faſt,
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