Drawing the Long Bow. — A fellow was kicked out of an editorial room the other day, for impudently stating that "he had seen, in Germany, a fiddle so large that it required hvo horses to draw the bow across the strings, which would continue to sound six weeks !" Some elderly gentleman will please inform the public whether the pain is greater when a man cuts his teeth, or when his teeth cut him i And whether it is more disagveeeble to have no appetite for one's dinner, or have no dinner for one's appetite ? Home Tooke relumed his income at sixty pounds a year ; the commissioners said they were not satisfied. Home Tooke, in reply, stated that he had much more reason to he dissatisfied with the smallness of his income than they had. When may a ship lie said to he ambitiously in love I — VVheu she ii making uj> to a Pier.
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Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 12, 4 December 1863, Page 5 (Supplement)
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154Untitled Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 12, 4 December 1863, Page 5 (Supplement)
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