Fun and Fancy.

Otago Witness, Issue 1585, 8 April 1882, Page 25

Fun and Fancy.

Pestered with ' contributions in verse ' from a persistent rhymster till his patience gave out, an American editor wrote to his correspondent thus:— 'if you don't stop sending me your sloppy poetry, I'll print a piece of it some day, with your name appended in full, and send a copy to your sweetheart's father. ' That poetical fountain was spontaneously dried up. h What is that <which has three feet but no legs, is all body, but no limbs, has no toes on the feet, no-head, moves a great deal but never uses its feet for that purpose, has one foot at each end and one- in, the centre of the body ; never walks out, but goes with one foot where the head might be,' dragging the, other foot behind ? Answer — A yardstick. A coloured man entered a fashionable church on a recent Sunday, and was proceeding down the aisle, when he was touched on the shoulder by the gentlemanly sexton, who said :— ' The seats in the roar row are reserved for coloured people.' 'Oh, it doesn't matter,' said the dark-skinned brother ; 'I'll sit anywhere. I'm not too proud to sit among the white folks.' And he entered a softly-cushioned pew well down in the broad aisle.— Boston Transcript. Maud McP, San Antonio—' Is a girl at sixteen years of age too young to be engaged?' Not being a girl wo cannot speak from experience, furtner than at one period of the writer's existence, many years ago, he was engaged to a few girls under or about sixteen years of age, and the engagement did not stunt them or affect their prospect in life in any way. They are all married now (not' to the writer, however) and seemed to have experienced no bad effect from the early engagement. You may risk getting engaged, Maivl. We give you this advice because we know you would risk it anyhow.— Texas Sittings.