Savory Morsels.
A scapegrace—-A man late at dinner. ; At thejßoman Catholic Cathedral, Perth, recently nine young ladies received the white veil. No Australian convent haf hitherto received at one time so large an accession; of nuns. Scene—Not a hundred miles from the Law Courts.—Free-born British Work--' man : ■• Well, if you ain't got a bit o' bacca to give away to a working man, you . don t need to look so 'aughty. You dnnno what you've missed, I knows as you stick» o salary don't git much, an' I was agoin' to arsfc you to din with me and the missus. Ah !, her homletts souffles is things ter think hover!" "Say, sis," remarked the higfrschbol girls brother, "you ought to see a new ,chap we've got at the store; he don't know beans." •• Can I never teach you to use proper language ? " inquired the highschool girl; « you should not saj "he don't know beans," but " he is not sufficiently versed to recognise the matured OTul© of a cumuiou legumiuous plant."
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4625, 31 October 1883, Page 2
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169Savory Morsels. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4625, 31 October 1883, Page 2
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