The Baby of a Girle. Hence horrible ſhadow,

And she likes you so much, and thinks you so accomplished and distingué-looking, and was just as set as I was to have you for best man.

That is, on the setup/punch-line model, the entire joke, from beginning to end, can be described as funny, once the punch line has occurred, but equally, for asymmetrical reasons outlined above, as nonfunny.

A year hence it will be forgotten.