A TIP ON BOTANY.

Golden Bay Argus, Volume XIII, Issue 50, 12 May 1910, Page 3

A TIP ON BOTANY.

At a restaurant one evening two miners got into a botanical argument about the pineapple, one claiming that it was a fruit and the other that it was a vegetable. In the midst of their argument the waiter entered in his shirtsleeves, and looked about to see what was the cause of the loud talking. The miners decided to let the waiter settle their argument, and accordingly one of them said : " Pete, what is a pineapple ? Is it * fruit or a vegetable ?' The waiter, flicking the ash from his cigar, smiled at the two men with pity. 7< It's neither, gents," he said. "Jt'fl an eitra."