DEAF AND DUMB.
Quietly entering a barber's shop the Btranger removed his hat and coat, and taking a card from his pocket, wrote on it : " I want to be shaved."
A barber stepping forward read the card, and, pointing to a chair, said to his other customers :
" Deaf as a brass kettle and dumb as an oyster." The man straightened himself out in the chair, when his manipulator began lathering his face. Meanwhile, allusions, far from complimentary, were flying about him. The operation of shaving was finished and the man arose, put on his coat, and then, turnirg to the astonished barber, said : "How much for the shave and compliments ? "
« i — i — i _I," gasped the astonished man, "oh, nothing — nothing — call again — excuse 1 " and as the stranger left the shop the discomfited barber vowed he would never believe in a deaf and dumb man again until he had first fired a cannon about his ears, at the very least.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1858, 1 July 1887, Page 36
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161DEAF AND DUMB. Otago Witness, Issue 1858, 1 July 1887, Page 36
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