" Cork Soles."
A dark, saturnine man sat opposite me at table on board the steamer. During the entire run fiom Sandy Hook to Fastnet Light ho addressed no one at meal times excepting his table stcvvaid. Seated next to him, on, tho riaht, was a \naoious gentleman, who, like " (iratiano " in the play, spoke "an infinite deal of nothing.''' He made persistent and pathetic attempts to lure his silent neighbour (we had ohnstencd him " William the Silent") in,to conversation, trot .a monosyllable was always the poor result — until one day. It wa,3 the last day of the voyage. We had stopped at the entrance to Queenstown, -Faibour to deliver the mails, and some fish, had been brought aboard. The vivacious gentleman was in a hi~h state of excitement that morning at table. "Fresh fish!" he exclaimed; "actually fiesh ! They seem quite different fiom ours. Irish full, of course. Can you tell me, sir," he inquired, turning to his gloomy shipmate, "what kind ot fish thc=e are 9 " "" Cor> soles," said tho saturnine man, in a deep vo cp, and then went on with his breakfast. — Century Magazine.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2455, 3 April 1901, Page 70
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187" Cork Soles." Otago Witness, Issue 2455, 3 April 1901, Page 70
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