JESTS AND THEIR ORIGIN.
There is a well-known etory of an impudent Irishman in a coffee-louse, who looked over a gentleman's shoulder while he was writing a letter, and -when he read, "I have much more to say to you, but a fellow is looking over my shoulder and reading all I write," cried out, "Ton my soul, sorr, I haven't read a word!" This anecdote is in the "Baharietan" (Abode of Spring) of Jami, the last of the great Persian poets of the fifteenth century. Tho story in the "Wit and Mirth" of John Taylor, the water poet, of the countryman in London who tried to pick up a stone to throw at the savage dog, and finding the stones rammed hard in ■the ground, declared that strange were the folk who fastened the stones and let loose their dogs, was told in the thirteenth century by the Persian poet, Sadi.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 135, 10 June 1933, Page 8 (Supplement)
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152JESTS AND THEIR ORIGIN. Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 135, 10 June 1933, Page 8 (Supplement)
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