正文 IX -- THAT THE WORST PUNS ARE THE BEST

If by worst be only meant the most far-fetched and startling, we agree to it. A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect. It is an antic which does not stand upon manners, but es bounding into the presence, and does not show the less ic for being dragged in sometimes by the head and shoulders. What though it limp a little, or prove defective in one leg -- all the [p 258] better. A pun may easily be too curious and artificial. Who has not at oime or other been at a party of professors (himself perhaps an old offender in that line), where, after ringing a round of the most ingenious ceits, every man tributing his shot, and some there the most expert shooters of the day; after making a poor word run the gauill it is ready to drop; after hunting and winding it through all the possible ambages of similar sounds; after squeezing, and hauling, and tugging at it, till the very m……（内容加载失败！）

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