A Tall Stories. — A Yankee having told an Englishman that he shot, on one particular occasion, 999 snipe, his interlocutor asked him why he didn't make it a thousand at once. " No," said he, " not likely I'm going to tell a lie for one snipe." Whereupon the Englishman, determined not to be outdone, began to tell a story of a man having swum from Liverpool to Boston. "Did you see him ?" asked the Yankee, suddenly ; " did you see him yourself ?" " Why, yes of course f" did ; I was coming across, and our vessel passed him a mile out of Boston harbour." " Well, I'm glad you saw him, stranger, 'cos yer a witness that I did ir. That was me I" "•
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 123, 5 October 1868, Page 3
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