" What do you mean by a cat and dog life P" said a husband to his angry wife. " Look at Carlo and Kitty asleep on the rug together ; I wish men lived half as peaceablewith their wives." — "Stop," said the lady ; "tie them together and see how they will agree." A Quakeh G-entleman, riding in a carriage with a fashionable lady, decked with a profusion of jewellery, heard her complain of the cold. Shivering in her lace bonnet and shawl, as light as a cobweb, she exclaimed, " What shall I do to get warm ?" " I really don't know," replied the Quaker solemnly, " unless thee should put on another breast pin." Dtjking a cruise of one of our men-of-war the sailors saw a comet, and were somewhat surprised and alarmed at its appearance. The hands 1 met and appointed a committee to wait on the commander to ask his opinion of it. They approached him, and said, "We want to ask your opinion, your honor." — " Well, my men,' what is it about ?" "We want to inquire about that thing up there." ♦' Now, before I answer you, first let mo know what; you think it is." — " Well, your honor, we have talked it over, and we think it is a star sprung a leak." Old Stobies oteb again. — Bubb Doddington was very lethargic. Falling asleep one day after dining with Sir Richard Temple and Lord Cobham, the latter reproached Doddington with his drowsiness. IDoddington denied having been asleep ; and to prove he had hot, offered to repeat all Lord Cobham had been saying. Cobham challenged him to do so. Doddington repeated a story/ and Lord Cobham owned he had been-telling it. " Well," said Doddingtoh; "and yet I did riot hear a word of it ; but I went to sleep, becauseI knew you would tell that story."
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 12, Issue 938, 28 April 1868, Page 2
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