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Southland Times, Issue 1610, 26 July 1872, Page 3

— ■ ■**—^— I — "*""*"^— Curiosities of Couktship. — An immigrant girl who had been telling me that her admirer was " crazed for her at first sight," adduced in proof of his condition that her acquaintance with him had begun by his throwing a pig-melon at her, and that he continued to throw more melons whenever Bhe entered the field where he was at work. As a missive expressive of affection I should have thought a cannon ball had been quite as sentimental ; but the girl's experiences of courtship showed me that the throwing of cucumbers and vegetable marrows over tbe garden wall by Mrs. Nickleby's insane lover was more true to nature than I had supposed. — "An Australian Parsonage." By Mrs Edward Millett. A good story is told of M. Tame, the author of the charming and entertaining " Notes on England," Max Muller, it is said, went to the dining-room of a hotel in Oxford, and there was Tame sitting with a dish of roast beef and avast quantity of buttered toast. The learned German waß surprised at the combination, and at the huge quantity of the toast. "Is that a Erench dish ? " he asked. " No," said Tame, " but they keep on bringing it to me in spite of all that I can say to the contrary." " What did you ask for? " observed his friend. " Why," replied Tame, " I keep telling them to bring ' pottertos' and each time they bring me a fresh dish of toast." M. Taine' s pro- , nunciation of " potatoes" was so like " buttered toast" that the astonishec waiter could not be blamed.