The Boudoir No. 2

ECCENTRICITIES

A remarkable hard drinker, who was expiring, begged one of his friends who was at his bedside, to bring him a goblet of water, telling him, "On our death-beds we must be reconciled with our enemies."

Sir Robert Bell eating of oysters, and meeting with one that was a good deal tainted, began to smell it. "Are you stinking?" says he. "By Jove, you shall not escape so, for 1*11 make you stink worse before you and I part." So saying he swallowed it.