VARIETIES.
A fair demand. —The Count do V., in the mildest tone, to his servant—- “ Joseph, you have been drinking my rum again, and you have put water in it to make up the deficiency 1 . “ I admit it, sir; hut I swear I will drink no more of it.” The Count do Y., slightly elevating his shoulders —“ You always exaggerate ! I don’t ask you not to drink it; I only ask you not to put water in what’s left. For really it isn’t Fair that you should drink rum pure, and that I should drink rum and wrter.” Delinite Principles.—Meek Canvasser —“You a Conservative, I ’ope, sir?” Fiery Constituent —“ How, sir !Do yon venture to indicate by a single word the complex phases of modern politics? Sir, I am a Nationalist of Liberal-Conserva-tive views—pins Boaeonsficld —tempered with pro-Rcciprocity, anti-Local Option, and uncompromising-hostility-to-llomc Rule proclivities.” (Meek Canvasser rather wishes lie was well out of if.) — “ Judy.”
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2263, 18 June 1880, Page 3
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156VARIETIES. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2263, 18 June 1880, Page 3
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