Savory Morsels.
Frenchman.—-" Madame, you charge vermooch too big- price for zat room." Landlady—" Oh, you know we at the watering places must make hay while the sun shines." Frenchman (indignant)—be gar, madarae, you sail nevare make ze hay of me. You must not zink zat because all flesh in grass, zat you can make hay of me."
" Pants for five dollars !" said a seedylooking man, reading the sign in the window of a clothing store ho was passing. "Sodo I; I never panted so for fire dollars in all my life."
A hard case.—Mr Malony : " Now, here, Bridget, I can enjoore this no longer. I've wore that little Snip's shirts patiently for months and months, and now yeVo got to get the washing for a lunger armed man, or' get a shorter armed husband."
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4425, 10 March 1883, Page 2
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135Savory Morsels. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4425, 10 March 1883, Page 2
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