Good Catches.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 3022, 6 October 1888, Page 3

Good Catches.

Talking about good catchos, this is jod onough to<.jfi, A young man, icompanied byffia wife, wont to m distriot postmaster in the United tales, witness to soliciting an ipointmenwVpostmaster in his itivo village. The distriot superinindant thought the applicant a very kely man, approyed of his appearoce, and his manner, and after lading the young man to think he light look upon his appointmont as ilerably certain, inquired if he 'had iw'hobby. " Yes," was tho answer I fißh a little." The scoffer will, f course, understand that ho said lis bashfully, and as if ashamed of imself, "Ah," said the great man, here do you fish ?" "In the brook lat flows through tho village." Evercatch anythingV" "Yes; I as out yesterday, but L only got de small thing," " All, very well,' ay woll, good day." No sooner ere they outside of the postmaster's ibm than tho applicant's, wife thus [dressed hor spouso: " John, why d you go and tell him you only got j little fish Jjjtordav?, Why .you da boautifdfMsket of 22 fish I" !fes, my dear, ,f was the answer, lam aware; but the postmaster is mself a fisherman, and if I had told I had taken 22 ho would have fought I was a Jialflind I should ave lost that appointment. See? ho saw. \