The well-known Leviathan metallician of Melbourne has a fine house, in which he gives very fine feed. To one of these banquets he once invited a well known and genial sporting writer. Subsequently on the pair meeting in Sydney, they quarrelled, and the bookmaker, with that elegance of diction for which he is celebrated, exclaimed: "Don't you talk about not beine : a gentleman. Why, when you was in Melbourne I asked . you to Don Juan Hoiise to learn you how to eat" " m••' *ePlied the scribe drily: "and such is the force of example, that it is all I can do to refrain from swallow.Mig xny knife ever since." Then there was a laugh and Joseph retired in some confusion, to manipulate th
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Observer, Volume 1, Issue 13, 11 December 1880, Page 117
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Observer, Volume 1, Issue 13, 11 December 1880, Page 117
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