Binks (who ordered a pancake half an hour previously): “ Er—l—say, will that; pancake be- long?” Waitress: “No, sir, it’ll be round.” A certain young fellow has got the parrot’s complaint—he talks too much. And tins ;s how it let him down a- cropper at an important interview. “You love my daughter?” said the old man. “Love her!” he exclaimed, passionately; "why, I would die for her! For one soft glance from those sweet eyes I would hurl myself from yonder cliffl and perish, a bleeding', bruised j»ass, upon the rocks two hundred feej; below.” The old man shook his head-
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Otago Witness, Issue 2914, 19 January 1910, Page 84
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