FACETIE.

Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 36, 17 October 1868, Page 5

FACETIE.

A " Snack" in the Grass. — A picnic. An " Awful Stinger."—" Nat." Langham. Your " Rumble" Servant. r-Your footman. Cricketing Proverb.— Two blacks don't make one Lillywliite. A man who "only does his work by halves— An oyster opener. Soot-ed to the Occasion.— The right i cricketers in the right place — " The i JJlacks" in London. Capital Punishment. — Being sentenced i under, the Lex Talionis for stealing a kiss ifrom a pretty girl. A Man in Advance of bis Time. — Ono who has been knocked into the \ puddle of nexfc week. Caution, — Ladies who wear long dresses, md dislike their being trampled on B «x)uld'wear upon their -backs a card with th^mspription, " No followers, allowed !" Ayistinction and a Difference. — Young La#\_Have you -my « j^ reviver," Mr. Bottles^ Chemist.— No Miss, but we have the>" infant restorative." Excepting Exceptions.— Brown, stopping on the Storching ffagSl agS o f Regent-street to moralise, observed, " There's nothing new under the auri J" " Except .boots," extjaimed his limping friend, who was HuQeying agonies." ' To the Point. —« l wish I could have peen your great feat," 'said a lady to a young gentleman who htjd had a hazardous adveuturo in Mammoth Cave. " There they are, madam," said he, pointing to his pedaiL extremities. A gentleman having engaged a briokHyur to make some repairs jn his cellar, ordered the ale to be removed before the bricklayer poromanced his work, ," Oh, I'm not afraid of a parrel of ale," said the bricklayer, *« I presume not," said the guutienura ; "brft I think a barrel of ale Would run at jow approach !"