Dv Johnston once silenced a lady backbiter, who was condemning some of her Mends for painting their cheeks, by the remark that it is a far less harmful thing for a lady to redden her own complexion than to blacken her neighbour's. The particular man gives more trouble and causes annoyance and delay than half a dozen careless people. When he is travelling, he puts his ticket in a place so remarkable secure that not only dishonest people cannot find ifc, but he cannot find it himself.
Young lady : " Very changeable weather, Mrs Wiggins, isn't it?" Mrs Wiggins: " 'Ees, Miss, It be. Fust 'ot, yer see, then cold, then 'ot agin ; but it's a blessin," 'cos if tho weather wasn't a little wariable there wouldn't bo no variety in some folk's conversations,"
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3035, 18 March 1881, Page 3
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