Some move of Toole's Stories.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 22 April 1890, Page 3

Some move of Toole's Stories.

Mr Toole can tell a lot of anecdotes of Southern. He said to a questioner recently : ' ' Dundreary 1 Ah yes 1 He was the most amusing creators on earth. You renumber that absurd trich of his whan he asked eighty people to supper, and wrote a private note to each man beforehand to ask him to bo so good as to say grace, as the chairman was unavoidably prevented from attending the dinner. The faaw of those eighty men when' they :-. •••-,.:• as in a body, at the tap on the tabie, when Sothern had severally informed them wa& to be the signal :iv<.' gace. mnst have boen a sight in* deed !" ' ' '• Here is anoth°r anecdote sines you wish it : A friend and myself had engaged to meet Sothern at a city chophouee. Sothern was lata, and while waiting there somewhat impatiently with my friend, we were attracted by the arrival of a very funny, cantankerous-looking old man who ordered a chop and devoured it with apparent fury. I couldn't help it. I got up, aud slapping him •n, the back exclaimed, *-* Hello, Geerge, ray dear fellow ! And how are you?' Tbe old fellow indignantly asked how I dared call him George. He waa not nor ever had been a ' George !' 11 At that moment in came Sothern. Knowing how dearly ho loved a joke, < I whispered to him : ' That's the oddest old fish over there. I ara half inclined to go and slap him on the back and say, *• Well, George, sobers you are !' ' Oh, no ; don't you do it,' said Sothern. ' There is nothing in tbe world I should like ' so muoh as to slap him on the back i myself ' Just as the old chap was conveying an exquisite morsel to his _, mouth, Sothern seized him by both , hands with tho exclamation, < Hello, George ! Why, it's years and years since I saw you 1' ' George ?' gtammefed the victim, ' Why, you ruffian, I bave had my chop here ' doily for the last twenty years, and such a thing never happened to me before, and this is the second time today I have been insulted in this very room and called George. George, indeed. You miserable idiot. Where is the manager ?' "