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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8666, 5 July 1906, Page 3

Mrs Marmaduke Brown was entertaining some ladies at a .select fiveo'clock tea, and her little son Jaoky, who had been exceptionally well-be-haved, was in high feather. " Ma," he said, as cake was being handed round, "may I have some tongue, please?" "There isn't any tongue, Jaoky." " That's funny !" said Jacky. "I heard pa say there would be lots of it," Mark Twain told the following story at a dinner in New York : — " There are in the world," he said " a good many men like Jonathan Scarborough, of Hannibal. Scarborough was one of those men with nothing evil absolutely known against them, who are yet looked on, and no doubt justly; with suspicion. It was thought of Scarborough that for a poor man he ate too much chicken. And one day the blow fell. He was arrested for chicken-stealing. A witness was called to testify to Scarborough's character. ' Did you ever know this man to steal poultry P' said the lawyer for the defence. ' No, I never did,' said the witness ; but this is what Ido know. If I was a chicken and Jonathan Scarborough was about, ' J'droosthiak'l"