KIBBLINGS.
A little nonsense »o* anil then. Ts relished by tb» wisest iaei>.
Tailor : " Yon promised faithfully yesterday morning that you would call in and settle for that suit last night, if it rained pitchforks." Customer: "Yes, I know; bat it didn't rain pitobforks." A little miss, better versed in fashion than physiology, being sent to drive the chickens from the shed, returned gleefully exclaiming: "0, papa! Itooktheiooster right by the bustle ani threw him down the steps !" " I see," said the major, " that the French have invented a rifle that will hit a man 980 yards away." "Then," exclaimed Lieutenant Timid, for it was he, " I will fight only with the French ; that iB just where 1 want to be bit." Oncle George (relating bis adventureß in Queensland) : " Ah ! my boy, I've seen the boomerangs flying about till the air was thick with üm." Willie (hazy as to the nature of the boomerang) : " Ob, ancle, yoa might have brought me borne an egg." A countryman is beinsj tried for the murder of an imbecile. Judge : " Can you give any explanation of the motive prompting you to this crime ?" Prisoner : "You don't know, judge, how canning and malicious these idiots can be." Judge: " Tut ! tnt ! Idiots are men like you and me."
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8934, 17 November 1890, Page 4
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