KIBBLINGS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8829, 12 July 1890, Page 4

KIBBLINGS.

A HtUo nonsense nor and than, to relished by tn# wwwet men. Corey F. : " I don't core, I think Jack Caßaley is real mean !" Belle : " Why Corey?" Carey F.: "He wrote to me irom Florida, saying he had shot an alligator 7ft long, and said when he shot another be would havo a pair of slippers Biade for me." Taken at his word. A : " Dear me! how the palm of my left hand itches, to be Bure!"-B: '"Tnat is a Bi?n thtt you are going to receive some money to-day." A : " I dare say you are right —lend me ten shillings 1" " What in the deuce do you grind that old box for ?" asked Smith, halting in front of an organ-grinder. " I play'a fo 1 monee," was the leply. "I might have known it," mused Smith passing on. "I don't suppose anything else would induce a man to listen to it all day." A Bhirt has two arms, the same us trousers have two legs. Yet one , is a pair and the other only one. Isn't it time that wo gave up astionomy, and paid more attention to every day trifles that vex the clearest minds ? It was a wide-awake Buffalo boy who on being reproved by his mother for discussing a wrestling match with bis brother, meekly xeplied : "All ri^hr, mamma. Will you read us a Bible story?" " With pleasure, dear — what shall it be?" " All about how. Jacob wrestled with the angel."