VARIETIES.
Making the best of it is a good rule for everybody.—“ What is matter ?” asked a lawyer of his coachman. “ The horses are running away, sir.” “Can you not pull them up?” “ I am afraid not.” “ Then,” said the lawyer, after judical delay, “run into something cheap.” “What is the use of a wooden coffin ?" said an Irishman to his friend. “Sure it will decay very soon. Bedad, I’ll have an iron one, and it will last me all my life I” One occasion, as Sterne entered a coffee-room at York, a stranger, staring him full in the face, insultingly said that he hated a parson. Sterne instantly replied, “ And so, sir, does my dog, for as I put on my gown and cassock he falls a-barking.” “ Indeed ; and how long has ho done so ? ” asked the stranger. “Ever since he was a puppy, sir,” replied Sterne ; “ and you may depend upon it he will feel the same antipathy as long as he remains one,”
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 3338, 13 December 1883, Page 3
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166VARIETIES. South Canterbury Times, Issue 3338, 13 December 1883, Page 3
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