KIBBLINGS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8615, 29 October 1889, Page 4

KIBBLINGS.

• A little nonsense now and then. Is relished by tho wi*en me". A tipsy sinner, who was reposing in tho utter, heard " Past two o'clock" cried by passing watchman. " One o'clock 1" iccoughed the toper. " Past two o'clock!" ie obstinate Dog, bprry repeated. " One 'clock, old boy. You're wrong," exaimed our hero, "I heard it strike twice." An Irishman, who was talking in rather nbi^uous tones about the sudden death c his paternal relative, was asked if he id lived high. " Well, I can't say he id," said Terence, "but h6 died hi&b." Why what do you mean ?" " Faith I eau that, like the Habeas Corpus Act, he as suspended." Dr. Swell : " You mutt take a trip a■oad and remain away for ayecr," Patient: I can't do thut. It would cost too much." octor : " Very '.veil, then, you can stay , home, and I'll visit you every day and y to pull jou through." Patient reectively : " I didn't think of that, jotor. I'll —yes—l'll go abroad." The reason that birds clean out a fruit cc bo quickly is that they take tin fruit flay a peck at a time. "You look as though you were beside Duraelf," said n wag to v Jap standing ssidß a donkey. Barber (to customer) : " You are about ie baldest man I ever saw." "Yep, been lurried three times."