HUMOUROUS.
!M.) )• M>^cr>.--!-i(-'d ot the ocean. Sound Lnvc-lmonl.-- I'uioha'-ino a eoi net. Turn about, i-, i iir ]>lay. A i\cw N. ork altleiman ha-, btcn lobbed. .Many a man ha-> I'u'mctl his cyc-iylit by sit tin/in a hm mom looking for work. Ji, is Line that tloeloi.s (lis-agico, but I hoy don t dw\«4iv,c hall mi uiue.h as their jnodicincs do. It is no ;_peat ercdil tor aw mm lotum v/hon upon. A Uurol hoo]) will do tlio .sfimo thinn. rriio fOfit-lail Ilirtation is the latest. A wiinkled coat-tail bearing dusty toe marks means ' I ha\o spoken to your iather.' T-hc talk turning upon the luncral ot -i lTianaircv, who had recently died, ' »cs' said Theodore Hook, ' I was out that day ; 1 mot him in his piivato box going to tho 1-tidiculc, says a (German critic, is like a blow with tho h*t; wit, like the piick of a needle ; irony, liko tho bting- oJ a thorn ; and humour, tho plaster which heals ail tho wounds.
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 263, 12 May 1888, Page 5
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167HUMOUROUS. Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 263, 12 May 1888, Page 5
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