A WITTY REPLY.
M. Leq;ou'. p, the Fiench Academician, who,r> doafh m just rcpoi t*d, w>s onoe travelling hy tram with a fiiend, who aflcd the date of the next election for membership of the Academy. M I.egouve said that it was to be in lhe> following month, wheieunon a younglady who sat opposite expressed iHirpn.«e. "I am a member of the Academy," she snid. "I am in the fust row of the ballot" — alluding, of course, to tho opera— "and I did not lenow of the pending election." "Oh," replied M. Legoine. "yon evidently bdoiifr to tl'o Academy of the Place do l'Opera, while I am only a member of that of the Pont dc.s Ai t= ; but"— this with a r-mi!e— ' at my age cmc must dance, whero and how he can."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2569, 10 June 1903, Page 68
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134A WITTY REPLY. Otago Witness, Issue 2569, 10 June 1903, Page 68
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