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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2191, 21 September 1907, Page 2 (Supplement)

At a village church a wedding was fixed for a certain date. The morn arrived. The service proceeded smoothly as far as the question, “'Wilt thou have this woman to be thy wedded wife?” The man stammered bhishingly, “Please, sir, I’m not the right one!” “Not the right one!” exclaimed the clergyman. “Then where is he?” “He’s down near the door of the church. He’s ashamed to come up!” The Real and the Ideal.—A London cabby entered a lending library, and pushed a well-worn volume across the counter. “ ’Ere,” he exclaimed to the librarian, “was it you wot advised me to read this ’ere novel?” “Yes, I believe so,” said this courteous official. - “Well,” said the cabman, “just you take it back! There’s nine people in the first four chapters as hired cabs, and each of them when he got out ‘flung his purse to tli© driver.’ Now that sort of literatchur makes me wild. It’s not real life!”