ODDS AND ENDS.

Temuka Leader, Volume I, Issue 100, 30 November 1878, Page 3

ODDS AND ENDS.

A Hint. —A young lady asking, a gentleman to see if one of her rings wonkLgo on his little finger. A young man boasted that he had u well-stored mind, whereupon a young lady murmured, ‘ What a pity we can’t find out where lie’s stored it !”

“ Minnie, I’m in such a quandary : for if L tu' n my back on Charley he becomes offended at once, an 1 if 1 don’t, lie can’t see my new buckle. \\ hat shall I do?”

A loquacious blockhead, after babbling some time to Lord Erskine, observd he was afraid he was obtruding on bis

lordship’s ear. “Ob, not at all,” said Erskine ; “ f have not been listening.”

The deliberations of the New York Bachelors’ Club were brought to a sudden and ignominious conclusion the other night, in consequence of the discovery of a hair-pin clinging to the coat collar of the ] resident. A Clever Youth.—A young man who had recently been admitted to the bar, and to a partnership with his uncle, came into the office and proudly announced that he had settled an old matter that had been in litigation for a long time. “ Settled it !” exclaimed his uncle. “ Settled that case ? Why, I’ve supported our family on that case for the last ten years.” “ We have short-cake for tea,” said a little girl to a neighbour’s boy, to whom she was talking through the fence. So did w<he answered ; “ very short—so short it did’nt go round.”