Fun and Fancy.
" What will you give me if I restore your eye eight ?" asked a quack. " I will see, replied the blind man. It is said that it ia about ac hard to hide one's love aa it is to hide a sneeze ; neither of them oan be suppressed. A modern essayeafc defines gossip to be the putting of two and two together and making five of them. No man is wholly bad. There is the forger, for instauoe. He is ever ready to write a It was Artemus Ward who said that there are two things in this world for whioh no one is ever prepared—twins. Every man who kan swap horses ortetoh fish and not lie about it, » jastazpius as men ever git tu. be iuthia world.— Joßh Billing^ There never was bat one man who complained of a railroad train for goim* too feat. And he wae trying to persuade a balky horse he owned to get off the traok before the coming trtkiu got there. It ia astonishing how fast an oyßter can swim after he ia made up in a enuoe. Brown sayo ha b»w a restaurant-keepor bale out fourteen ladles of flauoe before ho succeeded in oatohing a ejn. gle oyiter.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1555, 27 August 1881, Page 23
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208Fun and Fancy. Otago Witness, Issue 1555, 27 August 1881, Page 23
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