BITS AND BATS.
-Wilson: You'renot as stout as you . v nsed'to be, old man Whreler: No, since I started to ride a bicycle I've fallen off a good deal. Mr Sadly telU me than yon have given ' him new courage and hope. Doctor: I'm fflad to hear that; I'll put them in the bill now, A' young poet workrd three hours, and , then \ roduced these fine lines :- It was a cold and wintry night, A man stood in the street; :, Hisaged eyea tf ore full of tears;. ■* Bis boabf wagg-fall oHeet' v ■Tnbl)B (recounting his experiences at a musical party a few s pvenmgs previously). Thpy did not even ask me to sing. Miss Whitelye • plncidly); you've suns theretofore,"haven't you? -Yes. once 1 Wh}f" Ob, nothing.' At a legal investigation of a liquor seizure the judge nsked an unwilling witness: What was in the barrel that you had P. The reply was: Well, your honor, it wbb mniked • one end of the barrel and ' Pat Duffy' on the other end, so that I ran'b say whether it was Whiskey or Put Dufiy was in the barrel being as I am" on my oath.
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Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVI, Issue 8023, 16 January 1895, Page 1
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