A JOKIST.

Dunstan Times, Issue 901, 25 July 1879, Page 3

A JOKIST.

“He came unsmiling,” a« the reporters of th“ P. I!, say that is, he came up three stairs at a jump into our sanctum, joyous, wet. and muddy, and setting his dipping umbrella into our new straw hat that was on the floor in a cornor, and smoching his damp coat sleeves upon a page of fresh copy ou our side-table, remarked : “ Say, old feller, bigtiling for your Spice column ; thought of it last night after 1 went to bed. ” “ Don’t soy so,” said we, moving an open copy of Shakspeare away from the water-drippings that ran off Ids hat rim, “ quite kind in you to come up here in the rain to tell us—let us have it. 11 “ wed, why need an astronomer never walk. ?” “Oh, bother ; we suppose it is because you can’ttell his-scope, or because he’s found out how to planet without walking, or something of the kind.” “ No ! Tc is because lie always ku nvs where to look for an asteroid—an ass to ride—see?” We didn’t think it worth while to mention to him, as he went out, that ho had been leaning his left elbow into the paste-pot, and had rubbed his nose with his right hand after taking hold of a fresh proof slip, for he felt he had made his mark in this office ; we only shouted to him “ to keep out of sight when the astronomer wished to ride. ”—San Francisco News Letter.