VARIETIES.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2277, 5 July 1880, Page 3

VARIETIES.

Turn and Turn About. —Magistrate to mendicant, whom another mendicant has had arrested for assault, and battery :

“What made yon bent this paralytic man, your companion in misery, eh ?” Mendicant, in a coniidential manner—- “ I’ll toll yon, yonr Honnr. Fora whole month I dragged him about in onr little cart, we being partners ; and then when, according to onr rules of partnership, it ■was his turn to drag me about fora month, and mine to be the paralytic, he refused to fulfill his contract." Electioneering Affability.—A Scotch duchess, celebrated for her electioneering canvasses, called on a voter for his vote and interest in favor of one of the candidates at a contested election. Having heard that lie was making bricks on the property for the purpose of building a new garden wall, she went to him, and with her usual tact opened the subject by kindly asking, ‘MVoil, Mr (Jordon, and how do yonr bricks come on ? ” Looking down on his nether garments, the man said, in pure Aberdeen dialect, “ Mneklc abieeged to yer (Jrace, tbc brocks were some tiebt at Jirst, but they arc deeing well eneneh non.”