‘ What is the matter with your father, Mysie Hodge?’ said a parson to a cottager. ‘ Oh, Lor’, sir, he be bad ; he’s had a shock of “ paradise.” ’ The rev. gentleman thought a long time, and then the meaning dawned on his brain she meant paralysis. It is said that he was so tickled that he forgot to intimate that there would be a collection next Sunday. Miss Yassarbred : ‘ Ob, Emily ! I understand that you took the prize offered by the “Ladies’ Magazine ’ for the best essay written by a young lady under thirty?’ Miss Homebred: ‘ Yes ; somehow I gob ib —I don’t, know how. Did you compete?’ Miss Yassarbred : ‘ Yes; I sent them my graduation essay on “ The Buddhistic Extinction of Desire. ’ What did you write on?’ Miss Homebred: ‘How to knib a patch in a stocking.’
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 442, 1 February 1890, Page 6
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137Untitled Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 442, 1 February 1890, Page 6
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