ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

Mataura Ensign, Volume 9, Issue 642, 11 February 1887, Page 7

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

Shark. — If you are dead broke, remember that it is never too late to mend. Cuiuqus. — No, the man who was shot in the twinkling of an eye has not yet recovered. R. J. D. — The girl of the period has not been heard of for some time. Perhaps she has come to a full stop. — A bank-teller seldom goes off before he is loaded, and then he makes no report. Junior. — The scullery is the proper place for a phrenologist. Hake. — "Yus, there is some economy in marriage. You marry the nicest girl you know, you will then have her at the breakfast table, and, unless you are a sad clog indeed, you will not then require any but her. Millt. — People who wish to lead peaceful lives should never go to balls, for hops produce great bitterness. CeliEstus wants to know something pretty to say to the Coffee Palace girl who gives him his candle every night as he is going to bed. Well, how would this suit — " You give me my candle, I give you my thanks, And add — as a compliment justly your dve — There is not a girl in these feminine ranks Who could, if she tried, hold a candle to you." Annie. — We'll print two verses of your dog reel, and then bid you adieu for ever, we hope : a damsel's song. My heart is sick, my head is sad — But, oh ! the cause I cannot tell — I am not grieved, I am not glad, I am not ill, I am not well ! I'm not myself, I'm not the same ; I am, indeed, I know not what ! I'm changed in all except in name, Oh ! when shall I be changed in that ? Enquirer. — We believe that the fire brigade member who went to the fire the other night in a hansom cab and a belltopper was a resident Prahran. _