Bortio had half a buscuit battered, and a whole one unbuttered. Hβ gave Gracie the whole one, and kept the buttered. A remark being made about his giving away the larger piece, Mies Gracie said, " Yee he gave me the biggerest, and kept the butterest." A gentleman was convert-ing with an English doctor about a very famous Scotch surgeon, whose audacity in his experiments was at least equal to his skill. "I woHdor," said he innocentty, "why such «. man remains in Scotland ?" " Becaupo," answered the doctor gravely, "in Scotland there are no coroners' inquests." A certain youthful peer, on his way to shoot in the West, was dining , at Delmonico's the other clay, and was recounting to the genial editor of a New York d- ily paper the tilings that had struck him most since landing. Among others "I had no idea," said he, pointing to a nigger in the background, ,( that the North Americans were so black.'
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 438, 1 October 1880, Page 3
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158Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 438, 1 October 1880, Page 3
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