ODDS AND ENDS
Customer— c I want a piece of meat without fat, bone, or gristle.' Butcher (after having carefully examined his stock) — ' You'd better have an egg, ma'am ! ' The French Chamber and Senate have just voted the increase of the salaries of their members from £360 to £600 per annum. This , will increase " the national expenses by nearly £240,000, a year. The phrase, ' his mother's white-headed boy,' is as old as the hills in, Ireland. It appears, in many of the Irish fairy stories of the last century. Irish mothers who knew good fairies always kept the secret for the ' white-headed boy ' of the family. Gerald Griffin in one of his best short stories years ago used the phrase as one he . had borrowed from an ,old Celine book. ' •
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/NZT19070131.2.65.9
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 5, 31 January 1907, Page 38
Word count
Tapeke kupu
130ODDS AND ENDS New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 5, 31 January 1907, Page 38
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
See our copyright guide for information on how you may use this title.
Log in