A police inspector, being informed that a restaurateur was serving game out of season, visits the restaurant in plain clothes and orders dinner. " Waiter, partridge for one." The inspector finishes his dinner leisurely, and then says to the waiter, " Ask the Governor to step this way a minute." " What for ?" "I wish to notify him to appear in court to-morrow and answer for selling partridge out of season. I am the police inspector, and have secured the necessary evidence against him." 14 It wasn't partridge you had." Police inspector (uneasily) : " What was it, thenT Waiter (cheerfully) : "Crow." A lady in Cincinnati attempted to commit suicide because she could not master the Italian language. It does seem hard that the young ladies of America cannot be placed on an equal footing with organ-grinders.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 949, 13 November 1879, Page 2
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