KIBBLINGS.
▲ ..ttlo nonsense now and then, Is relishea by the wisest men. "Talk I" exclaimed Ponson'iv, "she can't say a word. "Why, I talked to her for half an hour last night and eha never opened her mouth — except to yawn." Mistress : " Didn't the macaroni come from the grocer's, Bridget ?" Bridget : " Vis, mum, but Oi Bint it back. Every wan of thim was iuopty." Mistress (to new servants) : " We have breakfast generally about 8 o'clock." New , servant : '• Well, mntD, if I ain't down ! to it, don't wait." . , " 'R-istus, yon aro charged with stealing Mr Brown's lawn mower. Have you a law>or?" — ' No, sah. I diln't realise 'nuff on the sale of that mower, jo-'ge, to hiah counsel." " I hope you always say your prayers before going to bed, Master Willie." Mastor Willie (aged fivo) : " I generally do, but I've given sister Lillio an apple to siy them for me this week." 11 You claim that yon were inaan? when you proposed to her ?" — " Yrs eir." — "Oan you prove it?" — "Yep, sir." "How?" — "By produoiDg the plaintiff in court and kt'in* the jury lnok at her."
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 9673, 15 April 1893, Page 4
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