ODDS AND ENDS.
A tall square-built : gentleman was seen walking down the street a few days ago, when all of a sudden he was observed to turn round: “J see the villain Kin your face,” said a Yankee judge to a prisoner. “ May it please ypur worship,” replied the prisoner, “ that is a personal reflection.” “ What is that dog barking at?” asked a fop, whose boots were more polished than bis ideas.—“ Why ” said the'bystander, “ he sees another puppy in yonrboots.’’ - ... Mrs Malaprop say? she knows who the Alpine glacier is. 1 He is a foreigner who carries a lump of spotty in his hand and a pane of glass niider his arm. The man who imagined himself wise because he detected; a typographical error in a newspaper has been trying to get a perpendicular view of the rainbow.
>«■'• Josh« Bi 11 i ngs, writing. fronp insUnct, says:—“To avoid all trnblo oy lawsuits from heirs and others, I have konkiudccl to administer upon my own estate hy spending it as I go along.” A gentleman was lying in bed one morning, when a friend stepped in and said, “ Smith, breakfast is coming up." “ Let it come,” replied Smith, with a look of,defiance; “I’m not afraid of it.’
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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1013, 26 March 1883, Page 3
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207ODDS AND ENDS. Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1013, 26 March 1883, Page 3
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