ODDS AND ENDS.

Temuka Leader, Volume I, Issue 95, 13 November 1878, Page 3

ODDS AND ENDS.

What kind of robbery is not dangerous ?—A safe robbery of course. If a young lady bids you take heart, you can probably take hers. A worm will turn, and so will cream in hot weather. Both last longest out of doors. When two girls meet they kiss When two young men meet they don't. That shows who want kissing most. Where there's a will there's a way. But where there's no will, the heir-an-law has it all his own way. " The larger the income, the harder to live within it," used to be Archbishop Whateley's opinion. It's best to be off with the old love before you are on with the new. But don't be off to church with either. -Husband : " Mary, my love, this apple dumpling is dot half done."—Wife : " Well, finish it, then, my dear." There is a difference in milkmaids ; the milk made in the country is not the same as the milk made in the cifv.

I Why is a great bore like a tree ? Bofh ! v k Ivsfc when leaving. Th letter was to his mother : " D.'tii" \T, —Send me a a clean pair of sock< ant som-tiling tw eat; ;lso a ! clean handkerchief and something t<> [ eat." A person being asked why lie had giv-'n his daughter in marriage to a man with whom he was at enmity, repled that he did it out of revenge. " Go on, young man—she is not here! " said n preacher one Sunday in the middle of his sermon, to a youth he saw standing hesitating at the door. A satirical minister says he has no doubt the time will come when the members of a church choir will behave just as well as other folks. A young lady was refused leave to go to a ball. She pleaded that her mother went when she was young. "But now I see the folly of it," said the elder lady. " I want to see the folly of it too, mamma," said the younger. A gentleman, on walking out one Sunday evening, met a young peasant girl whose parents lived near his hou«e, " where are you going, Jenny, ?" said he. "Looking for a son-in-law for my mother, sir," was the reply. Jenny, in fact, was going courting.

" Habit" is hard to overcome. If you take off the first letter, it does not change " a bit." If you take off another you have still a " bit" left. If you take off another, the whole of " it " remains. If you take off another, it is " t " totally used up. All of which goes to show that, if you wish to be rid of a " habit" you must throw it off altogether.