DORIC WIT.

A PERSON asking another, while viewing the front of Covent-garden

theatre, of what order the pillars at the entrance were, received the

answer, "Why, sir, I am not very conversant in the orders of

architecture; but from their being at the entrance of the house, I take

it for granted, it must be the Dor-ic."

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