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Golden Bay Argus, Volume 4, Issue 37, 8 February 1895, Page 3

A Truly Haughty Menial-—A gentleman who has taken a house at the seaside for the summer advertised for a house-keeper, and entertaining enough were some of the answers he received. In one case a woman wrote that she must have two rooms, artistically furnished, and a comfortable stall in the stable for her saddle-horse. The gentleman says he is much impressed by her forbearance in not insisting that he should also provide her with a groom in livery. A uocKneys Explanation-— “ Tom,” said the Tombstone Colonel to the Sergeant of the Sbirtfront at the Royal Club, “ I was playing cribbage last night with a brother horficer and ’e skinned me like a heel I” “ Do you mean the heel of your boot 7” “ ’Eel of my boot be blowed 1 No I I gaid ‘ heel ’—heel, the fish that yon heat I”