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Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 46, 10 February 1894, Page 11

Amy, speaking of the responsibilities of mptrimony —“ Would you be afraid to many an a thousand a year, Tom ?” Tom —“ iSTot a bit, if I could only find a girl with an income of that amount.” There is a youth who, every time he wishes to get a glimpse of his sweetheart, plants himself beneath her window and yells “ Fire !” In the alarm of the moment she of course plunges her head out of the window and inquires where, when he thumps his breast and exclaims—- “ Here, here ! my Caroline !” Two farm servants, a little the worse of drink, fell to fighting in the street. In the struggle both fell, when the uppermost began to punish his recumbent opponent. “ (live him fair play! Don’t hit the man when he’s down ! Let him up !” cried the spectators. “ Catch me letting him up,” was the response, “ I had owre muckle trouble in getting him doon !”