Savory Morsels
Concomitant to wedded Bliss.—A young married man gazed at his mother* in-laws two trunks in the hall and remarked sadly, " She has brought her clothes to a visit; would that she had brought her visit to a close p"
Mary (to Moses): "That watch you sold me last week won't go."—Mosas {to Mary): " Tent go! Vere do you keep him?"—-Mary: ■■••-Under my pillow, of course."— Moses : " That's it—you put him dere. How can he go? You've smothered him!"
First Student: " Well, what sort of an exam, was it ?'—Second ditto: "Oh, the ould boy took up a borne and said, ' What's that ? ' • Faymur, " gays I. ' Right,' says he. ' Male or faymale ?' says he. ' Male,' says I. " Wrong,' says he. ' Faymale,' says I. ' Plucked,' says he. ' Bed ad! says I—and that's all."
There are some people who are never satisfied.— Gentleman (to Servant): "-I have always placed the greatest confidence in you; now tell me Thomas how it is that my butcher's bills are so large, and that I always have such bad dinnersP"—Thomas: " Really, sir, I don't know, for I am pure we never have anything nice in the kitchen that we don't always send some of it upstairs."
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Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5116, 10 June 1885, Page 2
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201Savory Morsels Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5116, 10 June 1885, Page 2
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