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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8907, 19 April 1907, Page 3

Angler: "Hang it! Is there a dry spot in this boat where I can »triko a match?" Boatman (who has been disappointed «s regards refreshment) : "Try my throat, sir!" At a bazaar in Nottingham the Rev H. Russell related that the Duke and Duchess of Portland once noticed a man flogging his horse with a piece of barbed wire. The Duchess remonstrated with the man, who denied the act, whereupon the Duchess walked a short distance back and picked up the wire. After giving the man some good advice, the Duke and Duchess bought the horse and cart and its load of herrings, so that the animal should not again be ill-used. Henry Savage, of Islington, claims to be the oldest baker in London, and his claim wants a lot of upsetting. Born in 1807, he has baked bread continuously in different parts of London and the provinces eince 1819, and rem«mbers well the dark days that followed Waterloo and the close of the Peninsular War, when the quartern loaf fetched Is 6d, and, was seldom sold for less than 6d. •