UNABLE TO COME TO AN UNDERSTANDING.
Footpad (presenting pistol) : "Fork over your rhino, and be quick about it! " Near-sighted Oxonian:« Beg pardon!" (Sternly):" No monkeying! Dnlimber ! Produce the scads! " " Pardon me, but I do not exactly apprehend the drift of your 1 " " Cheese your patter.' Don't you see I've got the drop! Unload your boodle!"
«I am totally at a loss, my dear sir, to perceive the relevancy of your observations, or to " . "Clap a stopper on your gab and whack up, or I'll let 'er speak.' Turn out you, bundle quick! Get a squirm on you I" ■ " Is there any peculiarity in the external seeming of my apparel or dameanor, sir, that impels you, a total stranger, to ?"
" Once more, you dash-bedashed bloke, will you uncork that swag ?" (Hopelessly bewildered) : " My friend, I confess my utter inability to gather any coherent idea from the fragmentary observations you have imparted. There is something radically irreconcilable and incapable of correlation in the vocabularies with which we endeavor to make the reciprocal or correspondential interchange of our ideas intelligible. You will pardon me if I suggest that synchronization of purpose is equally indispensable with homogeneity or cerebral impression, u well u parallelism of idiom and "^
But the highwayman had fled in dismay.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 2686, 17 July 1894, Page 3
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210UNABLE TO COME TO AN UNDERSTANDING. Temuka Leader, Issue 2686, 17 July 1894, Page 3
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