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New Zealand Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 3321, 31 December 1897, Page 2 (Supplement)

An army officer in India was much annoyed by.bis “punkah wallah'* going to sleep. afc 'night instead of pulling the punkah. ' So to wake him he kept a bucket of water near his bed and threw a cup-fall over him whenever he ddzed off. One morning he found his mess-su’t wet through. The "punkah wallah" had moved the chair with the clothes on tothe. spot he usually occupied. 5 • A good story is told of ascertain shortsighted master at Eton. His hat blew off one day, and as be started in pursuit a black hen dashed out of the gateway’ The schoolmaster saw the hen, and thought she was his hat, and all Eton was electrified by the spectacle of a hatless and breathless reverend gentleman hunting that hen from one end of High Street to the other." "S ou can’t alius tell whah ter put do credit by lookin' at de surface," said Uncle Eben. “D* cork on de fishin* line dances, aroun* an* 'tracts a heap o’ 'tention. Bat it's de hook dat's doin' business.