VARIETIES.
An old maid in Nashville keeps a parrot which swears, and a monkey which chews tobacco. She says between the two, she doesn’t miss a husband very much. “I amisurprised Johnl” said an old lady when she found the butler helping himself to aome of the finest old port. “So am I ma’am, I thonght you had gone out 1” was the reply. A clergyman at an afternoon tea service was asked to read a notice for a woman’s right lecture, wbioh be did in tliis wise “At half-past six o’clock, at the schoolbouse in the first district, a hen will atempt to crow !” A poetess had begun a poem in uncompromising blank verse on the degeneracy of man—“ Man was a noble beingonce ; bathe—And here she was compelled to leave. A degenerate one came ib and took the liberty of helping her forward a little—“ Would probably have remained so ; but she ”
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 3790, 30 May 1885, Page 3
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154VARIETIES. South Canterbury Times, Issue 3790, 30 May 1885, Page 3
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