NOT WHAT WAS MEANT

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 36, 5 September 1907, Page 37

NOT WHAT WAS MEANT

The following are some amusing instances of the mischief wrought by dropped letters :— ' The conflict was dreadful, and the enemy was repulsed witE considerable laughter.' " ' Robert Jones was yesterday brought before the sitting magistrate on a charge of having spoken reason at the Barleymow public^house.' lln consequence of the nurrerous accidents caused^ by skating on the Serpentine, steps are being taken to put a top to it.' ' When Miss L— , late of Covent. Garden Theatre, visited the ' Heckla ' she .was politely drawn up the ship's sideXby means of -a hair.' ' ' • At the Guildhall .dinner none of the poultry was eatable except the, owls.' - -

' A gentleman was yesterday brought up on a charge of having eaten a hackney" coachman for demanding more than his fare, and another was accused of having stolen a small ,ox out of the Bath mail, and the sto- . len property was found in his .pocket.' ' The Russian General Kachkinofikowsky was found' dead, with a long word sticking in his throat.'