Savory Morsels.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5092, 13 May 1885, Page 2

Savory Morsels.

There was lately a squatting case in the District Court in Sydney. A broad shouldered, stalwart young, overseer was giving evidence as' to the .incompetence and impertinence of the bank's agent who bad been sent up to sell off 1 the sheepU?ftln fact, your honor, I was so disgaated j|rith man's ignorant presumption that I;a»ked him to come'outside and I'd' pundi .his head." "And," said the learned judge, pushing, his, wig away, and with a sly look at the muscuiarjproporiionijof thewitness, as if he would have liked to havo been by, " and did he come.out ?" The manager of a station on the Lachlan has lately resigned his billet. Before leaving he wrote to the managers of the different stations iv the district, stating how sorry he was to~gd go.away,from! so many friends, &c. About a fortnight after He again wrote all round, stating that he had "heard that his friends wanted to give him a testimonial, but he would much prefer a public, dinner." A muff is defined aY '" a- thing -which holds a girl's hand and don't squeeze it." Correct. But any fellow is " a muff" who will keep hold of a girl's v hand, without squeezing it. . /. Nothing annoys the keeper of a railway refreshment room more than to have one customer ask in a rather loud'tone of another: " Have they ever tried plating war-ships with this kind of sandwiches P" Breaches of Contract.—Masher trousers.