ODDS AND ENDS

New Zealand Tablet, 5 November 1908, Page 38

ODDS AND ENDS

1 Try the waiter with some of your French, dear.' 'By all means. Gass-on ! Gass-on ! ' 'No, sir; only the -electric light.' ' What do you ihink of the two candidates? ' asked one elector of another the other day. 'What do I think of them?' was the reply. 'Well, when I look at them I'm thankful only one of them can get in.' ' I think I hay? the most tender-hearted husband in the world,' remarked Mrs. Smith. 'He can't bear to beat his children, even when they need it ever so badly.' ' That's nothing,' replied Mrs. Brown. 'My husband is so tender-hearted 1 can't get him to beat the carpet.' ' Pa,' said Johnny, ' what is a law-giver? ' * There ain't any such thing, Johnny,' replied papa, who had been involved in considerable litigation in his time. ' But this book says that somebody was a great law-giver, persisted the youngster. ' Then it's a mistake,' replied the father, cynically. ' Law is never given. It's retailed in very small quantities at very high figures.'