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New Zealand Herald, Volume XII, Issue 4225, 29 May 1875, Page 2 (Supplement)

A lady once consulted Dr. Johnson on the degree of turpitude to be attached to her son's robbing an orchard. '' Madam," said Johnson, " it all depends upoa the weight of the boy. I remember my schoolfellow, David Garrick, who was always a little fellow, robbing a dozen orchards with impunity ; but tho first tif-ie I climbed up an apple tree— for I always was a heavy boy—the bough broke with roe, and it was called judgment. I suppose that is why justice is represented with a pair of scales I" A Little Imi .—This must have set him thinking. A lady sitting in her parlour, and engaged in the dreamy contemplation of the moustache of the young gentleman who, on very short acquaintance, had become very much smitten with her sister, and was then waiting for ker to dress that he might escort her to the theatre, was suddenly awakened by a stage whisper by a juvenile momber ot the family, who stood timidly in the open door, " You've got Ann's teeth, and sha wants them I''