"Puff"' on Classic Quotations
-•> A little learning is a dangerous thing , they say ! j So it is ! So is a slight acquaintance with the Classics and modern languages ! What are you getting at now ? "Was thinking of a remark made by a certain party the other day! Said party's always interlarding his conversation with quotations, &c, picked irp parrot-like out of the end of Webster's dictionary, or somewhere ! Well go on ! We were talking of Te Blooti's projected visit to Wairoa, and remarking that it might be the first step to a native disturbance ! "Ah," he said, "how singularly appropriate that old Trench proverb is to the circumstance !" " Which one ?" said, I ! Why, — and it isjso true, too — Cc rCest que le premier pas gui Kooti ! That was the way he pronounced it! Why he was very near a good joke ! Yes, sonny, about as near as the man who purchased some leggings in an alley and called them his crocodiles ! What do lie mean ? Well, he tried to fire off a big joke on alligators, but it was a failure !
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 87, 2 January 1886, Page 3
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181"Puff"' on Classic Quotations Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 87, 2 January 1886, Page 3
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