An attorney, about to furnish a bill of costs, was requested by his client, a baker, '• t > make it as light as l><* could." '• Ah !" replied the attorney, "that's what you any to your foreman, hut it's not the way I make my bread." ONrcdtiyat a pnrty where Til eyrand was, Dupont de Neinours harangued on his favourite theme, the language of beasts. A very stupid person undertook to controvert the theory, and when Hie person left, Talleyrand quietly remarked, "M., Dupopt is right—beasts do talk."
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 495, 12 April 1881, Page 2
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86Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 495, 12 April 1881, Page 2
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