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Otago Witness, Issue 3214, 20 October 1915, Page 74

Investor i “What do .you mean by falsely representing the property ? The notice stated that there was a view of fifty miles, ami I couldn't see fifty yards.” Agent: “No deception at all, sir. Which way did you look?” Investor: ‘‘Why, I looked all round me, and I could not see out of the valley.” “Well, mister,” returned the agent, “ you didn’t look right. If you had gazed up, thore’d have boon no trouble. I suppose you can see moren’n fifty miles up. I toll you, mister,” he added, as the investor walked off, “we don’t misrepresent the tacts down hero.” Harry Lauder told a very funny story at the Mighlield Military Hospital, -where he helped to entertain the wounded soldiers. Flo said: “ There was a Glasgow fellow went into a butcher’s shop and said ho wanted a nice bit of meat. So the butcher cut off a lovely beef steak, struck it with the flat of his knife, and said, ‘There you are, sir; like a piece of velvet and as tender as a woman’s heart.’ And the men said, ‘ Then I’ll have sausages.’ ”