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Otago Daily Times, Issue 1118, 21 July 1865, Page 5

WOBTHT OF COSSIBEBATION. Why IS Dunedin properly so called ? '-'Answer :— Because it's the Eden—the very Paradise of Duns. * Cabbage awl Ditto.—"l love you like anything1," faid a young gardener to his sweetheart, pressing her hand. " Ditto," said she, returning the pressure. ' The ardent lover, who was no scholar, was sorely puzzled to understand the meaning of ditto. 'Ihe next day, beiog at work „ with his father, he said, "Father, what to ..the meaning of ditto?" " Why, said the old man, " this here is one cabbage-head, ain't it ?" " Yes, father." " Well, that ero's ditto." "Drat it!' ejaculated the indiftnanl son, " then she called me cabbage-head!" " What should you think now," said a professor who was exatninimr a class in "Paleys Natural Theology' in relation, to the liws of cause and eflect, *' what should you think if you picked up a watch in the street?"—'• I should. j think," answered tne student, " I was a precious lucky, fellow I"