Fun. The Candidate's Creed.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1997, 25 April 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)

Fun. The Candidate's Creed.

I nnuKvrc in a Government of the candidates, by the candidates, for the candidates. I be* lieve that the man should seek the office, and not the office the man, as the old fogies tell I believe in patriotism, emoluments and coin, but principally iv the coin. I believe that a vote bought is equal to a vote saved. Taffy is a good thing in its place, but " sugar " is a moro convincing weapon.

Litilc John, as he is affectionately called by his friends, haa a very small head fixed on to a gigantic body and a torso like Hercules. The other day, at the races, an actor said of him : "Oh ! yes, our little friend ; he looks like a canary that haa just swallowed its 0*30 1 "

On tho boulevard. "Ha is an insolent, that young Count de " "Why so, dear doctor?" " Why ? Look, he has splashed me with mud from the wheels of his phaeton ; and he has not paid me yet for the death of his father-in-law 1 "

JvcijoEs, a soldier of the second claw, returned from Tonkin with a wooden leg. " Noble hero," saya M. Prudhomme, enthusiastically, " thanks to you, France has at I ength a foot in China." Jacquos, simply ; « Yes, I belkV3 so, I left my foot there."

A m\n has been arrested in London for simply laying up something for a winy day. In his room over nine hundred umbrellas were discovered.

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