WELL WORKED.
A well-known actor tells an amusing story of a man who entered a bar-par-lour of a country inn on a cold day. A group of loungers were huddled about the fire, and the stranger could not get near enough to keep warm. “ Got any oysters,” he asked the landlord, and, receiving an affirmative reply, said “ Take a dozen out to my horse.” All hands crowded to the dooi- to »e* the horse eat oysters, anti tho stranger secured tho most comfortable scat. The landlord returned soon, and said the horse refused to eat the shell-fish.
“ Well, give ’em to me, then,” said the artful traveller.
CARELESS. A woman crossing in a Day’« Bay ferry boat told a deckhand that sh« wanted to see tho captain when the boat reached the wharf, and make a complaint. When the captain came, the woman said :— “ I want to make a complaint about those life buoys. Just look at thorn! ” “ Well, what in tH r ld is tho matter with ’em. mad bed the captain, as he look:-! i ; timm. “ Matter with ■ hood th* woman, “ Don’t \ at they’re dirty? They ought i If a woman with a niceylr ; ’ J to pet — —
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 208, 19 August 1911, Page 4 (Supplement)
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199WELL WORKED. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 208, 19 August 1911, Page 4 (Supplement)
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