Foote and Jemmy Wright.
As Foote, the actor, was one day passing by the King's Baneh his attention was attracted >by a barber's shop, the owner of which, not being able to pay for several panes of glass which were broken when hs entered the house, had substituted paper ones for them, and over the shop door was written this inscription :—: — " Here lives Jemmy Wright, Shaves as well as any man in England, almost, not quite." Foote was so much convinced in his own mind that the owner was an eccentric fellow that he was determined to ascertain it immediately, so, putting his head through one of the paper panes, he exclaimed —
" Is Jemmy Wright at home, pray ?" i On which the facetious barber immediately thrust his head through another, and replied — • " No, he has just popped out." Foote laughed heartily, and gave the man a .guinea.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1764, 12 September 1885, Page 27
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147Foote and Jemmy Wright. Otago Witness, Issue 1764, 12 September 1885, Page 27
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