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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 14 April 1908, Page 4

Woods' Great Peppermint Cure fo» Coughs and Colds never fails, ls 6d and 2s 6d. • It is odd to find (writes Mr T. P. O'Connor) old "Punch" jokes brought home by Sir Henry Drummond Wolff to Archbishop Magee. My readers, lam sure, will remember the exquisitely re-fined-looking young lady in "Punch" who thanks the gentleman for the. vicarious relief of a 'torrent of curses he has just poured out upon the Underground porter who slammed the gate . in his face. "Oh, thank you; thank you so mmh !" she cried on hea.-ing ncr - "own feelings so adequately expressed. Well, here is a variant of tLe joke which Sir Drummond Wolff assti.-es yoi belonged to Archbishop Magee Al a picnic, to which his Grace was invited by a gentleman in his diocese, eve.y:*n"g in the luncheon basket had been so- confusedly packed 'hat the hungry aud distracted host used extremely strong language, to the' horror of his wife. ' \\ hat will" the Archbishop think?" the won-der-d, but was lot left long in doubt or pain either. "How fortunate!" cnol liis Grace, "that we have a layman here lo mako use of the appropriate language !" Again, I am sure my readers will remember that picture in "Pu.icl: representing a b'*mop in a third- us-, railway carriage oompously rebuking tne flippant freedom of a farmer who had thus accosted lum. "Curate," I suppose?" "I was i curate once "Drink," I suppose?" suggested t! tfarmer, as the only conceivable exflaI nation of him having ceased lo bt a I curate. This, Sir Drummond Wolff e_. sines ns. was a real experience of Ar- ibishop Magee's.