Couldn't Deny It.
" Appearances are deceitful," remarked the loquaaious traveller to his vis-a-vis. " I'll bet you £1 tb t you can't tell what I am." li Taken— l should imagine you to be a gentleman." " Confound— say, that's not square," but he paid the money. Dumley (who pretends to " strike" Brown for a five pound-note) : " Brown, I'm in bad shape, and I want you to do me a favor." Brown: "Anything, Dumley, anything, but lend you money ; I'm hard up my; self." Dumley (who sees his case is hopeless) : " Brown, did I ask you to lend me any money? Did I say a single word about money 1 The favor I was about to ask ie— but never mind never mmd — " Goes off with a touohing air of having been aaisiudaed. •' O'Eaffebts," said a judga, " your wife swears you struck her with great violence." " Wtd great violins, whin there is devil a fiddle, big or little, on the praymeses? She exaggerates too muoh entoirely, yer honor. It was wid me boot that I rebuked her." Mrs Laytin (waiting up for her husband) : " What is the matter, Molly ?" Molly (from the kitchen) : " Ooh, mum, there be thieves at tbe dace 1" M.r.a Laytin ; •• Well, tell them lam not at
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Tuapeka Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1869, 6 February 1892, Page 2 (Supplement)
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