A QUARTETTE OF ANECDOTES.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11987, 13 July 1907, Page 2 (Supplement)

A QUARTETTE OF ANECDOTES.

Once, od the wild coast of Cornwall, an Atlantic liner was driven on the rocks by a tremendous tide. The plight of the shivering passengers and crew was pitiable. The brave cheerfulness of the skipper andhis crew averted panic as the huddled crowd of passengers eagerly peered through the darkness for the welcome flash of tbe Iceboat's lantern. Por'ard an old Scotch engineer knelt, on the deck and prayed— "O Lord 'tis 40 years since I socbt a favor off ye, and if yo tak' us oot frae this dileema I'll never ask anither!" Poor Mrs O 'Flaherty sat amidst flickering shadows in the peatsmoked firelight, wringing her hands and wailing. . "Pwhat ails yez?" roared Denis. "Ochone, ochone! but I'm the neglicted woman, I am. " "Spak out, and name yer trouble. "Ah, Denis, dear! yez never calls your Biddy the swate names yez used to call your colleen in the old days. ' "Go on wid you, ould treacle face," Baid Denis. ■Within sight of the glimmering bghts in tbe buttressed windows of Edinburgh Castle a crew of Newhaven fishermen came near to the end of their labors in the wild North Sea. . . T , "Tbe'need of prayer is sair, I'm thinking," said the skipper. "Ay," replied the daunted crew. "Wha'll pray, lads?" cried the skipper. ' There was a silence for a time. Then a square- jawed Aberdonian sliddered forward: "I'm nae haund at praying, ye ken ; but I'll tak' up the* collection " "Enough!" A choleric colonel of the Scots Greys once became isolated from his comrades during an eager fox-hunt. His rage flooded his reason. Wildly galloping over a lonely moor he came upon a dull-looking boy herding aheep. The colonel inter rogted the lad. "Sa?, boy, have you seen a fox pass this way?" "Was it a wee, reddish-brown beastie?" m7 "That's the animal. Where did it go?" "Ha, has it a sharp nose and a bushy tail?" "That's it, my lad. 5 ' "And aye keeps glinting over its shouther as it rins?" "Yes, yes; but where— where did be g° ? " „. „ "JMon, I hivna' seen him."