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Doagla* Jorrold’* Wit
Jerrold would perceive the germ of a
retort before you bad well begu u to
form your sentence, and would bring it
forth in full bbwaom the inatant you
had done Hpeakiog. He had a way of
looking straight in the face of one to
whom he dealt a repartee, and with an
expression of eve that seemed to aak ap¬
preciation of the point of the thing he
was going to aay, thus deriving it of
he personality called upon or its ill-nature. object to enjoy It watt it as with if
him, rather than resent its sharpn
Tnere was a peculiar compression with
a sudden curve or lift up of the lip tliat
showed his own sense of the fun of the
thing he was uttering, while his glance
met his interlocutor’s with a firm un¬
flinching roguery, and an unfaltering
drollery of tone, that bad none of the
Sidelong furtive look and irritating tone
of usual utterers of rosr© rough retorts.
When an acquaintance came up to him
and said, “Why, Jerrold, I hear you
said my note was like the ace of dabs,”
Jerrold returned, “No, I didn’t; but
now I look at it, I see it is very like."
The question of the actual tesemblance
was far less present to his mind than
the neatness of his own turn upon the
complainant. Ho with a repartee which
he repeated to ns himself as having been
made on a particular oooasion, evidently
relishing the comic multeity, aud with¬
out intending a spark of insolence.
When the publisher of Bentley't 1 Minoel -
lany Raid to Jerrold, “I had some
doubts aliont the name I should give the
magazine ; I thought at one time of call
i a g it the “ Witt' Mitcellany."
* - Well," was the rejoinder, “but you
needn’t have gone to the other extremi¬
ty." Knowing Jerrold, we feel that,
had the speaker been the most brilliant
genius that ever lived, the retort would
have been the same, the patnees having
once entered hia brain. He wonld drop
hia witticisms like strewed flowers as he
went possessed on talking, countless lavishly, as one always who
store; yet
with that glance of enjoyment in them
himself, aud of challenging your sym¬
pathetic relish for them in return,
whioh acknowledges the truth of the
Hhakspeariau axiom, “ A jest’s hears prosperi¬ it."
ty lies in the ear of him who
He illustrates his conversation, as it
were, by these wit-blossoms cast by the
ic, way. Jerrold Speaking said, of “ Oh, a savage, he’ll biting review crit¬
yes,
the book os an east wind reviews an
apple tree.’’ Of an aotress who thought
inordinately well whitlow of herself, vanity;" he said,
“She’s a perfect of
and of a young writer who brought out
Jerrold his first raw specimen like of authorship
said, “ IJe is a man taking
down his shop-shutters before he has
any goods to sell."— Recollections oj
Writers.
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