Excerpt from Oldham's Amusing and Instructive Reader: A Course of Reading, Original and Selected, in Prose and Poetry, Wherein Wit, Humor, and Mirth Are Made the Means of Awakening Interest, and Imparting Instruction; For the Use of Schools and Academies The Crocodile. Mrs. J. L. Gray, 160 John Alcohol, my Joe 162 Great Wits and Small Wits 168 What Brings Ruin - Sleeping in Church. 168 Way to Gain Reputation. - What makes one Rich. 168 Way to Crush Calumny. - Great and Small 164 The Happy Mam - Excessive Sorrow 164 What Man is to Mam - Go and Come.. 164 Set your mark High. 165 Silence sometimes the part of Wisdom. 165 Hood, 165. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.