Fun.

Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1872, 5 July 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)

Fun.

There was a colored funeral in the southern suburbs of Austin. The widow was inconsolable at the cemetery 1 but when she returned to the desolated home and the fatherless pledges of affection *an out to meet her, her grief was like the giving away of a great dam. " Pore, pore little orphums, "she sobbed, "yo haven't got no f adder no moah ; but don't cry— l hopeß you git a stepfadder befoah you is much older. Da Lawd tempers de wind to de early worm." " Pawn me honah, me deah boy I" - " Don't," interruped his friend, " I beg of you don't ; you could't raise enough on it toifuy a cord for your eye-glass. " " Hello, Jones ; I'm glad to see you. " Jones, pretending not to recognise Smith, for fear he'd tap him for a loan, " My dear sir, you have the advantage of .me. " " Yes, any one has with ordinary intelligence." • 11 Gracious, Henry 1 " exclaimed a lady to her husband, " you did not drink all that bottle of claret alone, did you ? " " Alone, darling I " replied Henry ; "0, no ; I didn't drink it alone. I had 'just taken two toddies and a rum punch before I tackled the claret. I thought the claret itself might be a little lonesome, so I took them to keep it 370.