MORCEAUX.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 3800, 19 June 1880, Page 3

MORCEAUX.

Parasites — Eye-glassrs. A cuff on the wrist is worlh two on the car. A child, four years of ago, having been told that wo are all mado of dußt, observes a large amount flying about in whirlwind confusion. " Hallo ! there is somobody being made : I wonder if it is a boy or a girl ?" A clergyman attended a cricket match the other day in Boßton, and the following Sunday closed the leceon for the day by Baying " And thus ended the second innings." For those about to marry : Never marry a woman unless she is so rich that you would marry her if Bhe wero ugly, and co handsome that you would marry her if she were poor. Music teacher to scholar : " You see the nolo with an open space; that's a whole note. Can you remember that? " Scholar: "Yes'm. A whole note is a note with a hole in it." " You muet drink clarot to build up your Bystom." Patient. — "Oh, don't ask me to do that, doctor. Inm a wino morohant j I know how it's made." Wife (to her hußband, who is rating a juioy roast with great relish) — "For Heaven's enko, wo have both forgotten 'that ting is a fast day." Husband (sulkily) — " You might have waited at loast till I waa throng]]." " Wifo," said a man, looking for his bootjack, " I have places where 1 keep my things, nnd you ought to know it." " Yob," faid she, " I ought to know vrhoro you keep your lato hours, but I don't." "You've dostroj-cd my pnaco of ruind, Betsy," said a despairing lovor to a truant lass. "It can't do much harm, John, for 'was an amazing small pioeo you had, any way," was tho quick replay. A teacher, endeavoring to familiarise a littlo girl with tho various countries of the Western hemisphere, with litlle evidi -nee of euccees, finally ticked, "If I wore to bore a Lolo through the oarth, nnd you wero to go through at this end, where would you como nut?" "Come out.?" replied tbo child, " Why, I'd ot'ir.o out. of tho hole, mies "