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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2489, 23 June 1888, Page 1 (Supplement)

Ax English general and his wife, resident. in Ireland, were constantly pestered by a beggar-woman to whom they had been very charitable. One morning, at the usual hour when the lady was getting into her carriage, the old woman appeared, and begin, "Agh, my lady, success to yer ladyship, and succes, to your honour's honour, this morns ing, of all the days in the year; fosure didn't I drame last night that her ladyship gave me a pound of tay aud yer honour gave me a pound of tobacco !" "But, my good woman," said the general, "do you not know that dreams always go by the rule of contrary " Do they so, plase ver honour?" rejoined the old woman. "Then it must be yer honour that will give me the tay and her ladyship that will give me the tobacco." An old bachelor's definition of a baby A cn ing evil wlugh you only aggravate by puttii g down, *