A Texas cowboy recently won a silvertrimmed saddle for throwing a steer in one minute and forty-five seconds. Sometimes the steer throws the cowboy in just eleven seconds. But he doesn’t get any silver-trimmed saddle for it. And he doesn’t want it. He just does it for the fun of the thing.
A noble lord who had a great antipathy to music was asked why he did not subscribe to a certain series of concerts, it being urged as a reason for bis doing so that his brother subscribed. “ Aye,’’ replied his lordship, “if I were as deaf as my brother I would subscribe too.
“ Yes,” said the landlord, pointing to his block of new houses, “ they’re all full, ’cept the one at the end ; that’s last, but not leased.”
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 602, 18 August 1883, Page 3
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