KIBBLINGS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8833, 17 July 1890, Page 4

KIBBLINGS.

A little ooneenss roy and then. I» relished by tb* wi*c« men. A tea kettle can sing when it is merely filled with water. But man, proud man, is no tea kettle. Brings : " I did not see you at ohuroh lost Sunday." Braggs : "No; I didn't get in until you had gone to sleep." Financially speaking.—" Brevity is the aoui of wit." "Perhaps. But I assure you, there is very little fun in being Bhort." Whipper : " Why do you call LittleBhort a bad egg ?" Snapper: "Obit's so disagreeable to have him strike yon when he's broke." " Please giro me a copper air ?" Was the beggar's pleading wail. But the copper came with olub in hand And marched him off to gaol. Amatenr banter: "I deolare, this whole day gone, and nothing killed. I will go to the theatre this evening anyhow, and see some blood ; they're going to give 'MacbeJh.' " " I told him* that he was a lying thief." " You have got pluck. It is a wonder he didn't break your neck." "Ob, I told him what I thought of him through a telephone." • ; I want to see the head ol the firm," said the commercial traveller, aa_ he be^an unpacking his combs. "It ie^ a bald oue," the counter-jumper told him and hit sorrowfully departed.