'In closin' clis meeting, said the President of the Lime-Kiln Club, as the usual hour was marked by the clock, ' let ebery one o' you b'tir in mind dat blowin' up a bladder doan' make a bar 1. Git it as full of wind as may, an' its nuflin but a bladder. Do Lawd made each one fur speshul purpose, an' da chap who was created to use a shovel will git busted ebory time ho believes that he was cut out for a statesman. We will now be scattered.
A sad misfortune lately befell a well-known Q-C. Ifc is related of him that, as he was riding in a first-class railway carriage, from a single glance at the countenance of a lady at his side he imagined that he knew her, and ventured to say that the day was pleasant. She only answered ' Yes.' ' Why do you wear a veil ?' ' Lest I attract gentlemen. 'It is the province of gentlemen to admire,' replied the gallant man of law. ' Not when they are married,' said the lady. 'But I am not , 'Indeed?' 'Oh, no !lam a bachelor.' The lady quietly removed her veil, disclosing to the astonished counsel tli© face of his mother-in-law}'
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3093, 27 May 1881, Page 3
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