A SHORT WAY WITH BORES.
“To-day' 5 tells of a very amusing incident which happened the ether day at the - Author’s Club. A certain db-tin-gpishod author, who shall he nameless, was holding forth by the hour, as is his custom, all about himself and his work, and boring everybody to extinction. A well-known pressman who was present could no longer bear the infliction, and when the popular author paused fo* breath, broke in with the remark, “I believe th 9 lobsters in the Isle of Map are very fine. 55 The distinguished author, thrown out of his train of thought looked at him for a minute in evident bewilderment, and said, '•lies, I believe they are, but I don’t see what that lias got to do with what I was talking ahou i.”
‘ ‘Oh—ah,” replied the other, ‘l2 y-the-way, what were you talking about;*' 5 The distinguished author, with a deadly expression, got up and left the room and harmony was restored.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1509, 31 January 1901, Page 22
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162A SHORT WAY WITH BORES. New Zealand Mail, Issue 1509, 31 January 1901, Page 22
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