MINE AND THINE.
‘ WIIAT queer notions you do get up 1’ said one unsympathetic member of the family to another. * Notions, indeed 1’ said the person addressed. ‘ 1 don’t come out with half the number of startling propositions that you do.’ ‘ Oh. well,’ was the serious reply, ‘ mine are ideas.' ‘ How many people there are in the world with ridiculous hobbies,’ said a gentleman to a fellow-traveller, with whom he was trying to become acquainted. ‘I know it,’ said the other, ‘and how they do try to thrust them on the public ! I’ve laughed about it again and again.' ‘So have I. Now, for example, there’s that sun spot man —’ ‘ Excuse me. Science is never ridiculous. lam the sunspot man.’
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 23, 4 June 1892, Page 581
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120MINE AND THINE. New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 23, 4 June 1892, Page 581
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