“Braggin’ Saves Advertisin’.” — 336
“Well,” said the doctor, “I didn’t want to put myself forward, for it ain’t pleasant to speak of oneself.” “Well, I don’t know that,” sais I; “I ain’t above it, I assure you. If you have a horse to sell, put a thunderin’ long price on him, and folks will think he must be the devil and all; and if you want people to vally you right, appraise yourself at a high figure. Braggin’ saves advertisin’. I always do it; for, as the Nova Scotia magistrate said, who sued his debtor before himself, ‘What’s the use of being a justice, if you can’t do yourself justice.’”—Sam Slick.
A story that General Hooker has been left immensely rich by the death of a Mexican wife is thus disposed of by the San Francisco Atta:—“1st, General Hooker’s wife was not rich when he married her, nor at any other time. 2nd, General Hooker’s wife was not a Mexican. 3rd, General Hooker’s wife is not dead. 4th, General Hooker never had a wife. 5th, General Hooker is not a Croesus, never was, and never will be.”