MIXED METAPHORS

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 5, 31 January 1907, Page 37

MIXED METAPHORS

* A minister said to his congregation : ' Brethren, the muddy pool of politics was the ,rock -on which I split.' •. ir<> • 'An orator Ms credited- with a peroratiojn in- which Hie spoke • of .,' all ranks, from the -queeni sitting on. her throne-, to the cottager sitting on his cottage. 1 ' My client .acted boldly,' said the solicitor. ' He saw the storm, brewing in- the distance, but he was not dismayed. He took the bull iby the horns, and had him indicted for perjury.' ~ - / '- . A Hindoo journalist, commenting off 'a political disturbance, said : 'We cannot, from a distance, - ' realise . the intensity of the s crisis, .but it is' a certain , thing that many crowned heads must be trembling'" in. their shoes.' An old negro woman whose needs were supplied by friends never fail to express her" gratitude in "original language : ' You is powerful good to a! ,poref ole 'oman like me, wid - one foot in de grabe an' de oder a-cryin' out, " Lawd, how long, how long? " ' No one -could imagine what a speaker, meant when he. said, ' Biddy, diddy,' and then stopped,, and after, a . moment of confusion said, ' Diddy, biddy,' and'then, with a scarlet face and coldly perspiring brow^ gasped out, ' Diddy, hiddy, biddy doo ? ' Then he* had to" sit down and rest awhile before he could say, ' Did he bid adieu ? ' . •