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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 4, 6 January 1869, Page 2

- *iMy dear fellow,' said a waggish : getatieraan to a conceited friend, 'you « have certainly been put to the wrong ' business.' 'I do not understand.' 'You -. should have been a cooper.' 'A cooper!' •-• ejaculated the coxcomb, in horror. ' Yes,' said the wag drily, 'a cooper, because you make such a capital butt.' The latest way to pop the question is to ask-alady if you shall see her to church. A lady who has a great horror of tobacco got into the Newhaven cars tbe other day and enquired of a male neighbor, 'Do you chew tobacco, sir?' ".'.NoV tna'am, I don't,' was the reply, you a chaw if you want ■ . one; » -...•.,'•.. -'■•:,•• '',Ned, what an idle fellow you are ? I never by any chance look over the gate but I see ypu gossiping about in the lane.' : •:'-";'" Ask your pardon j. sir,' said Ned, ' but I was just saying that I never came into the lata? bot I found yon looking over the ;; ; s! ; '|^jte*r*-Griginal Fables in Liesure Hour. v A jg^ntlemau, in lecturing for the blind "otlier'; evening*, began by |;&g^vej^^rem^B«iig»'' -'If .ail" the world _ a melancholy sight it : y-^":^^yy£i^pAy :-yy-- • .-.■.■■■■. ■* .• ° ,■■■■. . ■