■\&i\ fe^^ji' ,ujis* **uT*' :>'!;; ' ' ■ ■■li~'. A good story is current in one of theii Australian cities (aocording^to the Dunedin.: Btar) relative to Mrs HardingeBritten. Mrs Britten commenced ooy| one occasion befdre a large, ?audienc^ with the iuterjectory question— f< Wh^ was I born?" and^i«^Bated: this ;in Ja crescendo three times, pausing ag£nv before".staking up iher aicgu>ileat2-LA s squeaking ypoipeji-om the gallery, as of a larrikin born, broke the sijence of the solemn interval'with— "I give Wip, Emma." It need hardly be stated that a good point was lost, but Mrs Britten could not help joining i'infclie' general laugh. At a dinner parfcy in Paris a tootbmsh was discovered at the bottom oi tHe tureen. "Don't mind;" .said the host to his guests, "'it's an old one," as he directed Marie to replace it on his dressing table. - The Burling!oh Hawkeye haa» noticed that from the time a boy is eight years old till he is thirteen, he devotes to solid hours of every day of his: busy life to learning how to make a new kind of noise. .
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 809, 14 June 1879, Page 2
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