WEBSTER'S LITTLE JOKE
. Daniel' "WeflSgiiier wa.s*one of -the great men who- like to make remarks of a character intended to puzzle simple minds. . Stopping one day at a country inn to dinner on his way to' Marshfield, he was asked by the hostess if he usually had - a good appetite. ■ ' Madame,' answered 'Webster, 1 ' I sometimes eat more than I do at other times, but never less.' The inhabitants of the village where v this profound Hibernicism was uttered have probably been at work ever since trying to comprehend its exact purport.
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 15, 15 April 1909, Page 598
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92WEBSTER'S LITTLE JOKE New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 15, 15 April 1909, Page 598
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