A printer, observing two bailiffs pursuing an ingenious but distressed author, remarked that it was a new edition of Pursuits of Literature, unbound but hot pressed. The late Baron Rothschild, dining once at his club in Paris, heard some one cay:— " Horrible bore — entX ten thousand francs, have not even got an acknowledgment ; and he's gone to Constantinople." " Write to him." said the b iron. " Have done so, and it don't answer — he does not answer." " Then, mon cher, write to him thus : — "Dear M. X., when the Turks and Turkesses leave you a little leisure time, send me the twenty thousand francs I lent you." " But he only owes me ten thousand." " Precisely ! he will probably write and say so, and then there's your acknowledgment."
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 327, 1 June 1869, Page 3
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126Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 Star (Christchurch), Issue 327, 1 June 1869, Page 3
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