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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 426, 14 July 1904, Page 7

The objectionable bounder observed the nice young lad j coming towards him laden with parcels, and he bowed with an oldworld grace. ' May I have the great honah of carrying your parcel ?' he queried. 'By all means,' she said, coolly surrendering her load to his willing arms. As they walked along he vainly tried in his fascinating manner to open sweet converse; but in vain. In pensive silence the maiden walked by his side, and Clarence was beginning to feel a little tired, when she stopped at the door of a large house. 'My reward has come,' mused Clarence; 'she'll ask me in, I feel certain.' A powdered footman threw open the door, and stood at respectful attention. ' John,' said the fair one,' jast take these parcels from this young man, will you P and see he has some bread and cheese and a glass of milk.' 'Now, Thomas,' said a certain bishop, after taking his servant to task one morning, ' who is it that sees all we do, and hears all we say, and knows all we think, and who regards even me, in my bishop's robes, as but a vile worm of the dustP' And Thomas replied: ' The missus sir.'. A parish minister was one day talking to one of his parishioners, who ventured the opinion that ministers ought to be better paid. . . ' I am glad to hear you say that,' said the minister. * I ana pleased that you think so much of the clergy. A.nd so you think we should have bigger stipend P* «Ay,' said the old man j •ye see, we'd get a better class o' men.' An elderly lady, pestered beyond endurance by an importunate beggar, who protested that he was starving, did at last give him twopence. 'What d'yer think I'm going to do with a qualified twopence ?' demanded the man, with fierce disdain. 1 0h!' gasped the old lady; and then, recovering from the shook—' Keep them, my good man; you will be able to give them to some poor beggar!' A certain swell, who was notoriously pompous and boastful, was neatly taken down the other day by a naval man at a dinner party, • While 1 was out hawking yesterday—' commenced the ewell, in a load, drawling voice. ' Hawking P' broke in the sailor, with sn assumption of great surprise, • Yes, falconry, you know.' • Oh,' said the sailor, «I thought you meant bootlaces and collar-studs" I Waflls is from wafel, a word of Teutonic otigin meaning honeycomb.