A gentleman at an eating-house asked the person next to him if he wo»ld please to pass the mustard. “ Sir,” said the man, “do you mistake me for a waiter ? ’ “ Oh, no, sir,” was the reply, “ I mistook you for a gentleman,” ! You say that drinking is one of your husband’s failings ? ” “ Tailings ? Oh, no. It is one of his successes.” An old Scotch minister told his congregation the truth when he said, “ Brethren, you are just like the duke’s swans in the lake yonder, You come to church every Sabbath, and I lay you all over with the Gospel J water, and I pour it up m you until | you are almost drowned with it; but j you just gang away hamc, and sit down by your fireside, give your wings a bit o’ flap, and you are just | as dry as ever again,”
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Temuka Leader, Issue 2009, 18 February 1890, Page 1
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145Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 Temuka Leader, Issue 2009, 18 February 1890, Page 1
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