TAKINGS,
He took her fancy when" he came, He took her hand, he took a kiss, He took no notice of the shame That glowed her happy cheek at this. He took to come of afternoons ; He took an oath he'd ne'er deceive ; He took her master's silver spoons, And afce'r that he took— his leive.
" Wall, stranger," said a backwoodsman to a man whom the landlord of the hotel where they both slopped had prevailed upon to sleep with him,— "Wall, stranger, I've no objection to you sleeping with me, none in the least, but it seems to me the bed's rather narrow for you to sleep comfortable, considering how I dream. You see lam an old trapper, and generally dream of snooting or scalping Injuus. Where I stopped night afore last tl ey charged me five dollars extra, 'cause I happened to kittle up the head-board in the night. But you can come, stranger, if you like, I feel kinder peaceable now."
Antipathy to reading sermons in the pulpit is a well-known characteristic of the dcotch people. At Kirkcudbright, at an inauguration, an old woman on the pulpit stairs asked one of her companions if the new minister was a reader. " An' how can he read, woman ?" was the reply : " the puir man's blin." " I'm glad to hear it," said the first speaker ; " I wish they were a' blinV
A Ready Lawyer.— A young lawyer, who had long paid his court to a young lady without much advancing his suit, accused her one day of beiug insensible to the power of love. "It does not follow," she archly rep\ied, " that I am so because I am cot to be won by the power of attorney," "Forgive me," replied the suitor, " but you should remember that all the votaries of Cupid are solicitors."
liib Hod. Henry Eiskiue, observing a spot of grease upon a Jrieud's coat, said that he was at present in the same condition as hishorse. " How is that ?" asked the gtntleman. 'Because," replied Mr Erskine, "you art greased." '• Oh, Harry," rejoined his friend, •'that wit isfur-fetchtd." "By no means," exclaimed Mr Erskine ; " it is made upon the spot."
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Otago Witness, Issue 803, 20 April 1867, Page 17
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362TAKINGS, Otago Witness, Issue 803, 20 April 1867, Page 17
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