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Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 736, 6 October 1870, Page 2

A virtuous and well-disposed person is like to good metal ; the more he is fire.l the more he is fined"; the more he is opposed, the more he is approved. ••■ Wrongs may well try him aud touch him, but cannot imprint on him any false stamp. A fellow who had. been paying his devoirs at the shrine of Bacchus, and like Falstaff had forsworn thin potations, stood at the corner of the street, endeavouring to sustain himself by the assistance of a post. It was rather a difficult piece of business, for he was first upon one side and then on the other. In this emergency, a boon companion on the opposite side of the street called to him to cross. "Come across!" replied the fellow with a hiccup, missing his hold on the post, and tumbling at length, " you must be a smart^man, to suppose 1 can cross, when I am too drunk to stay where I am." Mr Edward Khull, long a respectable printer in Glasgow, was sadly bothered with an apprentice, who neither could nor would be initiated into that portion of grammar which] treats of the proper disposition of letters and words. One day he presented such a shockingly inaccurate proof, as made his master, after starring with amazement, take his spectacles from his nose, and give the ill-disposing devil the following receipt : — "My man! just gang hanie this night, and tell your mother to boil Fulton and Knight's Dictionary in milk, and take it for supper, as that seems the only way you'll ever get spelling put into ye."j