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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2237, 19 May 1880, Page 3

Disappointed Jocularity.—He was the newly-imported funny man on the paper, and he wrote this fun of his in a crib so close to the foreman’s office that he could both hear and see his own proofs read aloud for correction. On the first night, when the voice of the foreman’s assistant conveyed to him'the printed reflex of his extreme funniness, he rubbed his hands and chuckled to think that when the climax of this jocular paragraph was reached, the climax of this jocular paragraph was reached, the proof-readers would bo choked off by excessive laughter. Now, the foreman in question was an austere man, whoac appreciation of bad - jokes had grown callous by some score of years’ martyrdom; and as for the assistant ho was an automatic pachydern so far as printed humours went. So the point of our funny friend’s jokes came and went, but ho waited in vain for the strangulation by laughter which, in his exultation, he had thought was in store for the proof readers; for the foreman seemed carved from mahogany as he droned out the most side-splitting witticisms, and the assistant might as well been a graven image for all the fnn ho seemed to see about it. But the Pelion of chargin was heaped upon the Ossa of that commodity when the funny man shortly afterwards distinctly saw a grin on both the immovable faces as they read the proof of a corn doctor’s advertisement. Such are the disappointments to which genius is liable. “ San Francisco News Letter.”