Toasting the Ladies
A gentleman responding to the toast of the ladies at a recent dinner up country, is reported by the Australasian to have delivered himself as follows : — " I have grown up among the fair daughters of Erin; I have spent many happy days among the stately beauties of England ; I have danced and sported with the lilies of France ; I have drunk lager beer and played kiss-in-the-ring with the fairheaded children of the German Vaterland, and never did I properly appreciate loveliness and virtue combined until I came to Australia, and never did I lose my heart, and bow down a meek and conquered victim hefore the shrine of beauty, until I had the misfortune to teach astronomy to a Victorian girl, by the dusky light of the Southern Cross." Poor fellow.
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Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 4, 10 January 1884, Page 3
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134Toasting the Ladies Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 4, 10 January 1884, Page 3
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