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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue 26, 30 November 1880, Page 2

Ho had an auburn-haired girl, and promised to take her out riding. She met him at the door when he drove up,and he exclaimed— " HeJo, ready?" She misunderstood him, and they don't speak now. Very Busy. — Some one asked a lad how it was he was bo short for his age. He replied, " Father keeps me so busy, I ain't time to grow." An improved form of challenge to a duel is the following Quaker note :— "If thou wilt eat twelve unripe apples just before retiring at night, L will do the samft, an 1 we will see who survives." An impertinent fop made a sport of an old farmer's large nose, mouih, and chin ; but the old farmer silenced him by saying, '* Your nose, mouth, an' chin all had to be made so 'at there'd be material enough left for your cheek." The barber's razor took hold of his beard with a vengeance, when he looked up and said apologetically, " My dear sir, I came in here to get shaved, not to get a tooth pulled." - The Chelsea philosopher says : Why should the most delightful of colors be associated with so many disagreeable things ? We have Blue Beard, blue bottle, blue books, blue stockings, blue pills, and blue devils.