OBEYED INSTRUCTIONS
A. shoemaker in- the city of Dublin, getting on well in the way of business, became proud. One day there were a lot of customers in the shop,' when -the shopboy came in to say that the mistress bid him say -dinner was ready. 1 What's for dinner ? ' asked the shoemaker. Herrings, sir, 1 answered the boy. 1 All right,' said the shoemaker, but when he w*mt up to dinner he reprimanded the boy for not mentioning something decent and big, telling the bpy in future always to mention a good feed when there were in people in the shop. A few days after the boy came to say that dinner was ready. J 1 What's for dinner ? ' asked the shoemaker — Fash, sir,' answered the boy. 1 What sort of fish ? ' asked the shoemaker. A whale, sir,' answered the boy.
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New Zealand Tablet, 30 August 1906, Page 37
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