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Dunstan Times, Issue 537, 2 August 1872, Page 2

Rectors daughter (to Sunday scholar)—“ Oh, you have an elder brother: well how old is he?” Schoolboy—“Dimuo, miss; but he’s just started o’ swearing. “And why did you leave your situation Coachman— “Well ma’am me and her ladyship ‘ad a di■ Terence about a bokay. We was going to a drawingroom and her ladyship wanted to put me o(T with a bokay made in the housekeeper's room! Well, I couldn’t stand that, so I went andordered a bokay at Covent-gavden; and would you believe it ma’am me and her ladyship’ ad a difference about the payment? so I give warning?”—Punch. A young man in New York was the victim of misplaced confidence a short time ago. He was particularly sweet on a very young lady and called onejevening having previously paid her several visits. The girl’s parents thinking both too young to keep company with each other gave a gentle hint to that effect—first by calling the girl out of the. room and sending her to bed and secondly by the lady of the house bringing into the room a huge slice of bread and butter spread with jam and saying to the youth in her kindest manner, “There take this, and go home it is a long way, and your mother wil be anxious,”