FOUND AT LAST.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume V, Issue 52, 27 December 1890, Page 20

FOUND AT LAST.

Housekeeper (to pleasant - faced girl at employment agency >: ‘ Have you any objections to the country ?’ ’ Girf (politely ): ‘ None at all, madam.’ Housekeeper : ‘ I have quite a large family.’ Girl: * The more the merrier. ’ Housekeeper : ‘ Seven children, two of them quite young_ — «* f Girl : ‘ I love little children.'

Housekeeper: ‘lt w ill be necessary for you to bake bread, wash and get the meals. I attend to the pastry and chamberwork myself.’ Girl : ‘ I will also make the pastry and do the rest, if yon will allow me. ’ Housekeeper : ‘ I cannot give you more than three afternoons off.’ Girl : ‘ Two will be sufficient, pei haps more than I will want, as my plan is to give strict attention to my household duties and thus get the work done up promptly every day, so as to have plenty of opportunities to rest between times.’ Housekeeper : ‘ I am delighted ’ Stranger (suddenly entering): ‘ Sorry to interrupt you, madam, but you are conversing with one of my patients w ho ha- just escaped from the Hopelessly Incurable Lunatic Asylum.'

‘There’s a sail case.'said old Mrs Squaggs, as she laid the paper on her knees and wiped her spectacles ; ‘ a bride struck dumb after leaving the altar, and at last accounts she hadn’t recovered her speech.’ ‘lt’s the way of the world, my dear,’ said old Mr Squaggs, with a sigh—‘it’s the nay of the world. Some men have all the luck.’

Groom: ‘A ring around the moon is the sign of rain.' Bride (sweetly): ‘And a ring around a woman's finger is the sign of V Groom (sadly): ‘Reign.’