THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
Nkwksi And Oi.dkst Fish Stoiukk. “Just th now me half-a-dozen of those trout.” “Throw them?” said the fishmonger. “Yes.” the customer replied, “then t can tell my wife I caught them. I may he a poor fisherman lint I'm no liar.”
Mitre Antony and Cleopatra were fishing together in the Nile, and Marc was having had luck, .so the lady sent u diver down from the other side of the barge to fasten a salted fish on to the Roman general’s hook. This tho diver did and. Iteing a hit of a humorist, gave the line a tug and held on for a hit. “By Jupiter!” said Marc Anthony. “I have a colossal bite. 1 mean to have this fish or Hades.” and be pulled until the diver’s wind gave out. and, the line released the General fell backwards and the salted fish was drawn mi. “Take that llsli off the book. I’alimurns : it is not so large as T thought, but- it is the oldest one I have ever seen.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1925, Page 2
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175THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1925, Page 2
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