"Your Majesty," said the chief cook timidly to tho cannibal king, "the now missionary is enveloped in a complete suit of armour from head to foot." "Then send him away," returned His Majesty, indifferently f "I never could bear, tinned goods." 'A junior barrister was hurrying across to the Law Courts when he almost collided with an ancient-looking "growler." The driver, who had pulled up with a jerk, pronounced his opinion in plain English ahout absent-minded people. "Couldn't you see the bloomin' 'oss?" lie asked, with withering sarcasm, "See him!"'gasped the startled barrister, looking contemptuously at, tha animal between the shafts. Then he stepped 011 to the kerb. "I didn't see your horse when I stood in front of him," he uddfd, "hut I oim !<i« somethins whoa I lock at him eidew&xsl"-
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2350, 5 January 1915, Page 7
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133Untitled Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2350, 5 January 1915, Page 7
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