News in a Nutshell.
An Irishman telling w^at he oi|led«h v excellent Btoi-y, a genfcleman oCsarYeq ' that he had read m a book several yeat^ - ago. " Confound those 'ancientii j" saiij^ the Irishman, * ; they are always a^al(Bj| ; one's good thoughts." • ' ' '•■i^ { '■' Bass, heqn abroad, deßdHb^f" his experience of shipboard 'asfoUow*: ■ ■ H You see it was very rough. The » steamer kept going up, pp, fjp, and then! down, down, dowu ; so after a .while my stomach stayed up and th,e steamer Went down." . . .:n'j;- ; '.' v ; * .' ■;■ Indignant eater to 'fl)o you pall that a mutton qhop to biing a gen- ' tleuian ?" Waiter, apolpget'cally, : ". Beg ■pardonj "sir. Chop's Is chops with us. Gentlemen and others "gets exactly thd same. It would be 'ard make a dfe- -** tinction. ; , ; .-,*'■''• - V r
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 248, 16 September 1884, Page 2
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126News in a Nutshell. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 248, 16 September 1884, Page 2
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