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Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 212, 5 February 1866, Page 2

" Pa, how many legs has a ship ?" " A ship has no legs, my child." "Why, pa, the paper says she draws twenty feet, and that she runs before the wind." An Irishman received a chaUenge to fight a duel, but declined. On being asked the reason, "Och!" said Pat, "would you have me lave his mother an orphan ?" Shaep. — A lady walking a few days since on the promenade at Brighton asked a sailor whom she met why a ship was called a " she ?" The son of Neptune ungaUantly repUed that it was " because the rigging costs so much." Sweet. — " Ma," Baid a Utile boy, " has aunty got bees in her mouth ?" — No, my dear, why do you ask ?" — " 'Cause Captain Jones caught hold of her and said, 'He was going to take honey from her Ups ; and she said, ■*. Well make haste !" Isbeq-TTCiAB Vebß3. — A Frenchman, just arrived who had been taking English lessons on the voyage from a feUow passenger, complained much of the difficulty of our grammar, especially the irregular verbs. For instance, said he, "Ze verb tto go. 'Did you ever see one such verb ?" And . with the utmost gravity he read from a sheet of paper— 'l go, thou departeat, be clears out, we «ut stick, yo or you made tracks, they absquatulate. Mon dieu! mon dieu! what disregular verbs you have in your English language,"