MELTED BUTTER AND PARSLEY!

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3907, 28 January 1884, Page 4

MELTED BUTTER AND PARSLEY!

Those who aro in the habit of telling prodigious stories ought to have good memories ; but, fortunately for tho world, their memories aro generally short ones. Sheridan used to deal with these mendacious pests in a manner peculiar to himself. Tie would never allow himself to be outdone by a verbal prodigy; whenever a monstrous story was told in his presence, he would outdo it by one of his own coinago, and put the narrator to tho blush by a falsehood more glaring than his own. A gentleman in his hearing once related a sporting , adventure of his, " I was fishing one day in a certain cold spring , full of delicious trout, and soon caught a largo mess. But, what was really surprising, not a foot from tho cold spring there was one of boiling water, ho that when you wanted to cook your fish, all you had to do, after Looking , them from the cold spring, was to pop them into tho boiling." The company all expressed astonishment and incredulity at this monstrous assertion, Avith the oxcojjtion of Sheridan. " I know," said ho, "of a phenomenon yet moro surprising. I was fishing one day when I cmno to a placo where there were throe springs. The first was a cold one stocked with fuih, the second a boiling spring, and tho third a natural fountain of melted butter .and parsley." "Melted butter and parsloy !" exclaimed the first story-teller "impossible !"