OUR TRAWL NET.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 1271, 12 February 1910, Page 4

OUR TRAWL NET.

"Yes," said the reformed cannibal chief, "I used to eat every missionary that came out here." "That was before you got religion, eh?" queried the new missionary. "No; before I got indigestion." A little three-year-old occupied an upper berth in a ship's cabin. Awaking once in the middle of the. night, his mother asked him if he knew where he was. "Tourse I do," he replied. "I'm in the top drawer." Some recent examples from the | writings of two Australian humorists — "Hope is the increase in salary wo never get — but might. It's that trip round the world we're going to take —but don't. It's the mine that's going to pay big dividends — some day. Luckily the things we hope for most don't always happen, otherwise our enemies would all be dead." An attorney who had long been trying to collect a small account from a* Irish client, said to the latter one day, "Why don't j'ou pay me that six-and-eightpence, Mr Mulropney." '-'Why. faith, because I don't owe it to -you.'' "Not owe it me? Yes, you do; it's for the opinion you :had of me." "Opinion," replied the Irishman. "That's a good 'un indeed, when I never had any opinion of you in all my life." ; Barbara (aged six) : "Mother, may I take my best doll to heaven?" Mother: "Certainly not." Barbara: "May I take my second best doll to heaven ?" Mother: "No." Barbar: "May I take my rag doll to heaven?" Mother: "No! Don't worry." Barbara: "Them I shall take my rag doll and go to hell." Torke: "Your daughter's musioal education must havo cost a lot of money?" De Porke: "Yes, it did, but I've got it all back." Torke : "In<leed!" De Porke: "Yes. I'd been trying to buy the house, next door for years and they wouldn't sell. But since she's come home they've sold it to me for half price."