An interviewer stops short, after writing the words, " Prince Demetrius Tchawtschawdze," and utters this remark : "Imagine such a name on an umberella! It would hangover the ferrule." A snob paying an Irish bootblack with rudeness, the dirty urchin Baid : "Me honey, all the polish you have is upon your boots, and I gave you that !" Why, for having false weights, should we be more ready to blame an apothecary than any other tradesman ? Because an apothecary has " scruples," which the other tradesmen have not. " Now, Spriggins, my dear," said Mrs. Spriggins, at the theatre during the first intermission, " you needn't j»o out to get any coffee, for I have got half a pound in my pocket."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VIII, Issue 1326, 20 May 1881, Page 2
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