Clippings from the Comics.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, 19 December 1891, Page 3

Clippings from the Comics.

(From Judy.) Very True.— Don't take on so, my lad. What's done's done.— Yes ; there's no use crying over spilt milk — No ; it only makes it more watery. That's Why.— Why should our . stock-broking friend, Riggabit, who always wears shepherd's plaid troumts, never sit down without putting one leg over the other ? Because a business man should never omit to cross his checks. Men who hate long sentences.— Criminals. Strong Measures — Converted Sal ; 'Aye yer tried 'eaping coals of fire on 'is 'cad ? — Meg : No ; can't exactly say 'ow I 'aye ; but I've tried bilin, water, often. (From Moanshine.) A Knotty Question. — (Scene : By the sad sea waves.) - Sentimental Damsel : Is a sailor's knot at all like a trua lover's knot ? Prosaic and Slangy Young Man : Well, I shouldn't think so. I've heard that sailors are always good at splicing, and lovers often aren't, nowadays, you know. (From Fun.) Stratagem,— He : I was in hopes that our families would come to open war. — She: They're the best of friends. Why ?— He : Because we could start it by an engagement. A Soul for Music. - The sole of a oreaky boot. "Another fine day," as the habitual drunkard said on receiving "five shillings or seven days." Cause and Effect.— Parson : tut tufc I Banks, I'm sorry to see you like this again, I thought you had quite taken up with tbe cause. — Banks : That's where it is, shir. It's all them temp'rance leckshers of yours, they do make fellers dry. The Fare o' The Pharaohs.— That should, sure, have been the way to allude to the royal feasts of Egypt. We leave this to be digested by those who love to peer amid the pyramids. (From Punch.) The Ruling Passion Strong at Dinner. — Laconic Waiter (thoroughly familiar with Sporting Major's taste in champagne) : Seventy-four, sir. ?— Sporting Major (down) on his luck, after a bad week at Newmarket) : Seven to four, sir ! Dash it f Wouldn't take ten to one about anything ! A Connoisseur.— Sir Ppmpey Bedell :This bottle of Romanee-Conti seems rather cloudy, Brown 1 It ought to be all right. I know it stands me in twelve guineas a dozen ! —The New Buttler: There certainly his some sediment, SirPompey ; but it's of no consequence whacever ! I tried a bottle of it myself the other day, and found it first-rate. "The Man for the Post."— Sir James Fergusson.