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A swket girl graduate: He (at dinner): “ May I assist you to the cheese. Miss Yasser'/” She (just graduated); “Thanks, no ! jam very comfortable where I am. But you may assist the cheese to me, if you will.” (lentleman to his servant: “ Where is the rest of that pale I ate a piece of yesterday '/ “ Don’t know, sir.’ ‘Ask the cook.’ Servant, a little later. ‘The cook told me to tell you that she had told me to eat it. sir.’ ‘John, did you ever qbservelpiw fond Dr. X. and his wife are of each other?' ‘ I hadn’t noticed it especially. What makes you think they are /’ ‘ Why, Mrs. .\. always calls thedoctor her duck.’ ‘ Ah, yes—that’s because he is a quack The late Bishop of Kxeter and Baron Alderson were sitting next each other at a public dinner. After the usual toasts had been drunk, “ The health of the Xavy ’’ was proposed. Lord Campbell, expecting to have to roturq thanks for the Bar, and not having heard the toast distinctly, got up ; whereupon the late Bishop whispered to Baron Alderson, ‘ What is Campbell about? What is he returning thanks for the Xavy for?” ‘ Oh,’ answered the, witty Judge ‘he has made a mistake ! He thinks the word is spelt with a '• k.”

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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WT18871129.2.26

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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2401, 29 November 1887, Page 2

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212

Untitled Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2401, 29 November 1887, Page 2

Untitled Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2401, 29 November 1887, Page 2

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