Airy Nothings.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42773, 2 September 1905, Page 4

Airy Nothings.

v •• i \ jl • * T‘) 4 i'k-4 s One,.iayV{ befcne Bates had been showing her new ser* vant girl how to cook some sausages, and, after seeing.thejn carefully dished, left the kitchen, telling Betsey to bring them to table ‘along With the tea. The tea was brought but,the sausages wero not to beseen. “ Ypuhave forgotten the sausages,”, said Mr|, BatfS. r fo, please ma'am; You;saidXwa^lO>Jing They were in the teapoti y Absolution.-An audacious-thief; whilst on his knees in the confessional, filched the watch oftfhe priest to whom he was confessing. “ Father said h©, “I steal,’’ “/What.,my sqnr’4 Father, I have stolen (the. watch was n°w/ in his.pockiet), you, father, would l giyebas have ,s£len.” “It you should restore, but to him whom you stole.” from whom I stole, bate it “ Ah, well, you may keep it. Quits.—A pastry cook whom appefc, hud praised highly for hm skilf,in cookery, in some yersps he had Written. Wished jin reward, him W®; pdUWI- - by, presenting. liim. with a Qsk& v The poet found,; however, thd ; paper at the bottom of, the cake was - part of his poetical productiop. and went in arageto complain of this insult. “ Why do you reproach me? .saidtno # cook. “We are quits ndw; for yoa made your verses, on my cakes, and I make my cake upon your verses. It Worked.— ‘‘Here;'; >s?»' . *. v two packages for twopence. yelled a r seedy-looking envelope-pedler in -Holborn. Here y’aro now ; two pacfc * ages for a penny ! ’ howled another , envelope-pedlar, almost bustling J fellow-merchant off the Women out shopping noted the different prices, and sodn bought » out the tw>for»a penny man. Then both £> pedlars drifted .round the and the one who had sold no - envelopes; divided his stock i with the other, remarking, with a chuckle, “It works bee-utifully,old pal, don’t it?’