SEVERAL GOOD ANECDOTES
More than one jrood story which _do©* not strike one as in any sense a chestnut” will be found in the anecdotal pages of the "Windsor Magazine for December. For instance, the following remark overheard on a Scottish farm:— Affable Yankee Tourist -. Well, Mac. I gues9 you’ve fattened up some rice plump haggises for your Burns Night dinner, 'haven’t you ? And this, told of an artist’s visitor:— Old Gentleman (looking oveT artist friend’s house: My sight gets worse and worse, Horace. Now. what have we here? Is it a picture or is it one of your paintings? Another, dealing with a quest for lodgings is:— . , Gentleman (discussing terms for lodgings) : But the "use of a piano” is no use to me. I can’t play. ■ Landlady: Oh. sir, but you’d ’ave the use of it, all the same. My daughter is always a-practising. And one entitled — "A FAAR CRY.” Mr Tooting Beck: You’ve got a new baby at your house, I hear. Mr Kensington Gore: By jove, can you hear it out in the suburbs?
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11435, 3 February 1923, Page 14
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