OUR TRAWL NET.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12502, 1 April 1909, Page 1

OUR TRAWL NET.

"You have been courting -me now for a number of years, George," remarked a girl to a young man, "and I want to make a Leap Year proposal.' "I— l am hot in a position to marry just yet," stammered the youth, "but "Who said anything about mar--1 riage?" interrupted the girl. "I was going to propose that you stop coming here and give somebody else a chance,." An old Indian colonel was very deaf but would not-use an ear trumpet, because he didn't like people to know that he* was afflicted m that way, so he took it for granted that the first I greeting from anyone he met would be about the weather. His friends knew his weakness and one morning a friend met him in the street and greeted him with — "Good morning, Colonel! How's your wife?" J The colonel, having the weather answ er in-. his head, immediately replied, I "Damp, dirty, and disagreeable, [ and no sign of a change." I The great" rhinoceros, when he heard of j ■ Roosevelt <oii his trial, ■ Forthwith was struck with such alarm j he .turned a deathly pale , j Till pallid as of chalk was he from ). horny snout to tail. , On came the.liunter, his desire a rifle. i . for to sight > \ Not at a 'mere-: rhinoceros, but one all i ■-" snowy white ; i But ere lue passed the trigger, why, j . the rhino died of fright. "' - There had been some technical clas- ' ses started in connection with the parish schools, and when the vicar recently called at the home of one of the pupils, the boy's mother expressed hOr delight at their institution. ! "Do you know,, vicar," she remarked "since 'Enery took up the plumbing and gasfltting at^them classes it ain't cost us a single penny since for gas?" * . "Dear me !" replied the much gratified reverend gentleman, "and how is that?" ■ "Why, he went and moved our pe.nny in the slot meter from the kitchen to outside the front door," came the explanation. "But don't you have to drop the pennies in . just the same ?" queried the vicar. . "Not us, vicar!" came the proud i reply. "Other people does that for us. 'Enery writ 'chocolates' over the top of it, you see.".