A young lady, visiting in a genteel family, asked the footman for a potato at dinner. John made no response. The request was repeated; when John, putting his mouth to her ear, said very audibly, " There's jist twa in the dish, and they must be keepit for the strangers." ATr — A certain judge having been called on, at a public meeting, for a song, regretted it was not m bis power to gratify the company. A wag who was present observed, " He was much surprised at the refusal, as it was notorious that numbers had been transported by his voice."
A man hearing of another who was a hundred years old, said contemptuously, " Pshaw ! what a fuss about nothing! Why, if my grandfather wa« alivo, he would now be a hundred and fifty jearo eldi"
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Otago Witness, Issue 685, 14 January 1865, Page 12
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