“ Such stuff as dreams are made of” -—Heavy suppers, bottled stout. Natural Explanation.—Two countrymen paused in the serpent-house in the Zoological gardens and contemplated the boa-constrictor. . “ I say,” said tho first countryman, “what’s that insect tied himself up in a knot for like, that ?” “ Oh,” replied his companion, in a superior manner, “ I suppose he wanted to remind himself of something when he woke up 1” And, by the way, a Sydney journal (July 11) had this tho other day A thief in Melbourne stole a purse containing 4314, frora’a lady entering an omnibus, and then he ran away and has not been caught. Nothing very new. Knavery has outstripped honesty for a long time in Melbourne,” Does not this invito reprisals ? Might not an illdisposed person suggest something abput “glasshouses,” or say that Melbourne was, perhaps, a misprint for Botany Bay.—“ ißgles" in the “ Australasian.”
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2921, 5 August 1882, Page 3
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