Not so " Daft" After Aff.
In tho village of T there is a clerk who is known as "Daft Johnny," owing^to his having been confined in a lunatic asylum""esvoral years. The other day, shortly after his release with a document stating that ho was now sane, he was having an argument with several of his fellow clerks, when one of them suddenly exclaimed: "Look here, Johnny, you'd better hold your tongue. You've only just come out of the lunatic asylum, and we all know you're daft." "Daft?" exclaimed Johnny, with sarcasm. "Why, I'm tho only man among the whole lot of you who has a certificate for being sane!"
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Otago Witness, Issue 2389, 14 December 1899, Page 63
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109Not so " Daft" After Aff. Otago Witness, Issue 2389, 14 December 1899, Page 63
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