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Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1548, 6 February 1874, Page 106

Delicate Consideration. Mamma: What a din you're making, chicks! What are you playing at ?—Trixey : 0, mamma, we're playing at railway trains. I'm the engine, and Guy's a first-class carriage, aud Sylvia's a second-class carriage, and May's a thirdclass carriage, and Gerald, he's a third-class carriage, too—that is, he's really only a truck, you know, only you mustn't tell hinoso, as it would offend him J Presence of Mind.— At a party last year a young lady was standing in a draught, when an elderly gent in the law and a bachelor, stepped up and remarked—" Miss —, I will protect you from the draught by standing between you and it." She replied—" Do you promise always thus to guard and protect me ?" Through his proverbial gallantry, he replied—" I do. " Extending her hand she remarked—" Dear sir, you will remember this 'is Leap-year." The man in the law-was for a moment nonplussed, but finally he succeeded in saying, "You must ask my mother,". ...