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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 28, 9 January 1862, Page 6 (Supplement)

Payixg the Penalty. —An intelligent naturalist was recently visiting a Hertfordshire farmer, who complained that his crop of turnips were getting worse every day. On examination, it was found that several wire-worms were on every plant : Have you been killing the small birds ?” inquired the naturalist. “My neighbour and myself killed 1500 sparrows this Spring,” was the reply. This explained the mystery. The farmer had killed his very best friends ! The poor little sparrows would have destroyed all the wire-worms ! A certain person asking a merry Andrew, why he played the fool ? For the same reason, said he, that you do, out of want —you do it for want, of wit, and I do it for want of money. A young ensign of a regiment, residing in lodgings, the sitting-room of which was very small, was visited by one of his fashionable friends, who on taking leave said, “ Well, Charles, and how much longer do you mean to stop in this nutshell P” To which ho wittily replied, “ until I become a kernel.”

A western paper speaks of a man who died without tho aid of a physician.” Such instances of death are verr rare.