Wanted to Know.—Why doctors aay, "lot me feel the pulse," and "Let me see the tongue?'-— Why domestiVservanta always commence thsir letters with " this comes hopping to find you in good helth, as it leaves me at present ?"—Why is it considered correct to eat sweet jelly with roast mutton, oyster sauce with cod-fish, and cucumber with salmon? —Why younger brothers always allude to a surfeit of pastry as a " blow out '"—What is the use of barristers saying, " Now I ask you on your oath, although they were sworn directly they stepped into the box?— Why we describe aa a<itoi'«bad elecntHm as" pleaching 2"
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New Zealand Herald, Volume V, Issue 1434, 22 June 1868, Page 4
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