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Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 149, 23 June 1894, Page 11

Mistress-^-' Did you learn how Mrß Robinson waa ?' Servant-^' Please, mum, I pulled at the doorbell half an hour, and couldn't make anybody hear. I think the bell had been muffled.' Mistress-*' The idea ! How is the poor invalid to know thab all her friends ore anxious abnub her, if her hearbless relatives have muffled the door-bell 2' ; Making up for ib.-^-' Don't you think the Rev. Stilb.s sermons are awfully narrow V •I suppose they are, but, goodness, he makes up for it, I Bbould think, in length.' He'd fill the Bill Himself: A well-known bub irascible literary man once sent a new Bervant girl oub on aa .errand. Green to city ways she had lost her way and did everything wrong. ' You've no sense, at all, 1 the master stormed when she returned. 1 The nexb time when I wanb an idiot to dp an ejrand for me, I'll—l'll go myself.' She: « Papa said you; must not atay after eleven o'clock.' He s 'It's nfoe o'clock now.' She: ' Mercy I We have only two hours to cay good-nigh b.'