DOING HIMSELF WELL.
Kelly, a Dunedin publican, was sitting at his own tablo one Sunday at dinner. He had just given liberal helpings of a particularly juicy leg of wether mutton to his boarders and family, and was taking a bite_himself. Then.Casey, all smiles and affability, came into the dining room like a whirlwind. "How axe you, Kelly?" he shouted, giving hia host a, resounding thwack between the shoulders; "and how is Mrs. Kolly and all the young Kellys?" he said, again giving another full-handed slap between the shoulders. Kelly,, having by this time disposed of his potato that had lodged in his aeeophagua on the first greeting, turned, with' a sinister, glint in his eye, to Casey, remarking: "Ye're givin' yerself an'ell of a Teception, aren't ye?" - .--. '' ■■"-■ • ' ■ ■ '■ ' ■ -
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 78, 28 September 1918, Page 16
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128DOING HIMSELF WELL. Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 78, 28 September 1918, Page 16
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