A LUDICROUS MISTAKE.
At a public dinner recently gived in a large country town in England, the toast of the “Arm}', Navy, and Reserve forces” was proposed in terras of equivocal coraplipliraent. In submitting the toast the chairman said “ This is a toast which requires Very little comment from me, as the subject is one with which you are all familiar. The Army and Navy have been drunJc for very many years, and the Reserve Eorces have now been drunJc for something over twenty years.” The result was .an explosion of merriment, the meaning of which it took the genial and learned chairman,- a gentleman with a national reputation, some little time to comprehend ; but when he realised the dreadful import of his little slipj he joined in the laughter as_heartly. as any who graced the festive board.
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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1040, 28 May 1883, Page 2
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