UNCONSCIOUS HUMOUR.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVI, Issue XXI, 23 May 1896, Page 589

UNCONSCIOUS HUMOUR.

A CORRESPONDENT writing to the Spectator, asks : — • Are the following worthy of your space ? (I) An Irishman thus moralised on the uncertainty of life. •• When one counts the accidents, dangers, and diseases which beset the journey of life, the wonder is that a man lives till he dies.” (2) Another repelled an accusation of cowardice for having ducked his head when his enemy shot at him by saying, “ A man had better be a coward for a minute than be dead the rest of his life, ” (3) A Cork Town Councillor is credited with having thus spoken. “ There can be no doubt of the virulence of this epidemic, for I know of people lying dead from it who never died before.” (4) The same gentleman thus chivalrously defended a colleague : “ I strongly protest against this attack on my absent friend, for surely it is not right to hang a man behind his back.” ’