LAUNCESTON.
June 1. The barque Cambria, about which some anxiety was felt, arrived here last evening from Mauritius. ■....,.. ■ m mil ii. «■■__—__— An honest man in giving a description of a horse he wanted to sell wrote to the party wanting to buy: "He stands uneasily on one of his fore legs. " The gentleman wrote back : "If your horse can stand on one of his fore legs at all, lie must be a remarkable creature, and would doubtless be a valuable acquisition to a circus. But I want a horse for the road."
Two noted lawyers, when driving out one afternoon, met a countryman with a throehorse team, the leader being fat and sleek and the other two in very poor condition, and asked : —' Why is one of your horses so much fatter and sleeker than the others ?' The countryman, who evidently knew his questioners, gravoly replied : ' It's 'cause the leader's a lawyer and tho other are his clients.'
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3097, 1 June 1881, Page 3
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