ODDS AND ENDS
( I suppose in getting together your art collection you secured some paintings by Raphael ? ' 'By raffle ! Certainly not ! We paid full price for everything.'. 1 What is Johnson's business ? ' ' I think he is a bookkeeper ; at least, he never brought back the one he borrowed from me last summer.' The Philosopher — Tell me what a person reads and I can tell you what he is. The Dyspeptic— Not always." There's my wife, for instance ; she's always reading a cookery book. The Philosopher (confidently)— Well ? The Dyspeptic— But she's no cook.
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 21, 28 May 1908, Page 38
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93ODDS AND ENDS New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 21, 28 May 1908, Page 38
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