MERRIER MOMENTS

Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 38, 13 February 1904, Page 2 (Supplement)

MERRIER MOMENTS

"Ma, what is revenge?" «» - your daddy scolds mc and *I ha v ■* ha * a broomstick." ••• mt hna t^ Chappie—l knelt befoah ler a** ther to be my wife. CholuS^ ke « wejected you? Chappie: Yaas TT,'? 3 That was wough. Chappfc? * DhoUle * got my twousahs bagged at thVi*" l for nothing, bah Jove! "I read an account of how a mrt '"* » over forty feet without kfflajfij* "Good gracious! How "Tried to get out of a *££*£ exactly twenty men it." . "* "Just fancy, Weginald, I\- e f oran Z ma cahrd-case." -Nevah mind, &* * I'll lend you some of mine " «£? the name would be different, you thitZ "Bah, Jove, so it would. Wha? you have, Algyl" vvaa tahead A RARA AVIS Little Girl (finishing her deeirm*of the battle of CnSsy)-■-S** , " , since then the Prince of Wales has ££ born with feathers!"—'-"Punch? First Saleslady: What a vindictive mM that person over at the umbrelklP 1 teris! Second Saleslady: Indeed^ 1 ' Saleslady: Yes. She told MaS Si yesterday that she wouldn't 3f e W n*>uthful of food if she wasTo^ "Please I want the doctor +« and see mother." "Docto X ou - ii£T servant "Where do you "Why," exclaimed the little bov/S you know mc? Why, we deal " We had a baby from hire la^eek?

Maud: Why, he actually dared t<l kiss mc or. the nose! ._ . .; g Hett.T : I hope you made him-feel Itnr entirely out of place it was?-^ K Comie Cuts." .» NO HALF MEASURES FOR HBL She: Papa says that if we get.married he'll pay half the expense of furnishing. —He (languidly): Well, what about tha other half?—" Ally Sloper's Half Holt day." :;. ~- : Byer: The boys of Captain Lusbinatfi company want to present him with some little testimonial. Cutler: How about a nice pocketknife? Here's a beanty, with four blades and a corkscrew. Byeiij Haven't you got any with one blade and four corkscrews? ■ ~ e , "Mabel," said little Jennie to her ,big sister at~bfeakfast, "did you. tell'pap*!" "Tell papa what?" aked you told Mr. Buster last night it he did it again you'd tell papa —and life did it' again—l saw him!" And then paplloofct ed at Mabel over his glasses. "I feel," said the young man-lolirt father, "that existence without youj daughter would be only a dreary whose completion could not come ton soon." "Very well," said the old gentleman, 'take her, and presently you'll fed the same way, only more so." '..

As young Smithers moved out the cerf table, lie asked casually: "Where ii the bright red table cover you used ta have? I always liked that." *J°* wouldn't like it now," interrupted little Tommy. "Tommy," said his sistrf Clara, "run away and play; theres * dear." "I wont/answered Tommy, "water's » «Sh! Tommy, hush!" "W°^ answered Tommy again- And as hustled fr. m the room, h.e yelled, »* ters made a petticoat outen that **»«, cloth!" |^y Two little sisters had a piece oil b»« material given them with wlucll Th " make dresses for their dolls. ™J were found soon afterwards performing funeral rites in the garden, and exp£ m * cd—"Yon see, we was 'bliged to one dollie before we could put OUrOUiM ones into mourning." * - ? He Was Feeling His Way—"H I «*J to tell you. Miss Smith," he said, » a low, earnest tone, "that I am aDou to start on a long journey, eTffl«r» the sea, and that it may be months, a°« possibly years. ere I return, w» would "you* say?" If the girl djW» it wasn't perceptible. ' : I would W» Mr Sampson," she replied, "», ta. Fond Mother with Babyt BTe *£ look so like his father, doesn t fee - -*- B.: Yes, but I shouldn't mind that, " long as he is healthy. Miss Lily was teaching Master jfl&J lie manners. ••When you do that annoys any one you must -**~ beg your pardon.'" "Tes," ***"%£, M&ter Charlie, "that's all very «£ but what do you say when peop rude to your' "I don't teow, Miss Lily, embarrassed-. said her young ;pupil tnOffljW»« "You say, 'Chuck it." .