OUR TRAWL NET.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12403, 19 November 1908, Page 3

OUR TRAWL NET.

A young Canadian humourist who • went over to England, hoping to find London editors in receptive mood , lonvardou a contribution to "Punch" with this note :— "Dear Sir, — I arrived in London this morning and pj.id a visit to Westminster Abbey this afternoon. I found this call depressing, for a' man naturally shrinks from inspecting the spot where he is to be buried." A crowd of small. boys Was gather- : ed about the entrance of a' circus | tent in one "of the small cjties in New Hampshire one day, trying to get a glimpse" of the interior. A man standing near watched them for a few moments, then walking up to 'the ticket taker he said:— - "Lot all those boys in and count them as they pass." , The man did as requested, and when the last one had gone he turned and said "Twenty-eight." "Good," said the man. :"I guessed just right," arid walked off. •. ■ . . -"A corruptionist," said Senator Depew, "once entered a voter's house. In the voter's absence he. pleaded his cause to the man's wife. Finally, spying a wretched kitten on . the floor he said: "I'll give you 25 ..cellars for that animal, ma'am.' She accepted those terms. The corruptionist, thrusting the kitten ,in • ■his overcoat pocket rose to go. At the ' door he said : T hope you can persuade your husband -to vote for me, ma'am.' 'I'll try to,' said the woman, 'though' Jim's a hard one to move when his mind's made up.; but anyhow, you've got. a real cheap kitten there. Your opponent was in yesterday and. gave me 50 dollars for its brother,.' . . A priest going through a village ■ in Ireland came across one of his farmer friends '.busily; engaged fencing a field round with scarcely a blade of grass"oh it. ■' . ■ > "Why, Pat," says the priest, "a herd of cows would starve on that land." "Begorra," says Pat, "shure, I •am only fencing it round to keep the poor bastes out of it." !( Some English navvies in a railway coach were once in loud : conversation, swearing boisterously the while. .One of them was specially fluent. ■■■■*-■ "My friend/ said another passenger in shocked tones, "where did you learn to use such language?" "Learn !" said the navvy.. "You can't learn it, guvnor. It's a-gift, ' that's, wot it is. ' ' ■ >