"Yo hate to part with this colt now. You see, I haven't any children "How can you compare 2 colt with children! Childrea can go t0 college, carve out careers. for" themselves, but a colt—a horse could never be= come President."
fof mine haa a colt once that: grew No, nat a President, But " friend ma fae Puzzled Tr was the custom in the village for the well-to-do inhabitants to make good any Joss the village might sustain through the death cit any livestock. A retired millionaire. recently seltted in the village, seas ignorant Of this practice, and was considerably Puzzled by, the visit of a labourer's wife. who explained tat, she had lost a pig.
"Well. 1 haven't got st' said the bewildered millionaire, "What I mean, sir, of course, is that the pig died" explained the woman, "Well. what do you want asked the new arrival, cee Silence in Court v A super has neon quoted agamy on the extremely confusing wording of Gnoneial Acts sr Parliament and, particularly, of Income Tax legis" Jaton. The' precise intention of the legislature (he said) is<very often obscured, My old friend Mr. Justice Sweetyple was of the same mind, come across some barmy things," he Said. during the hearing of Commisners of Taxes v, Cork, "but this section of the Act, to which my attention has been drawn repeatedl; strikes me as being easily the barm est—barmissimus barmiorum."
He paused here to take a swig of barley-water, and, on putting down the bottle, remarked, with a roguish Mr. Cork, the defendant, We the latighler had subsided, he continued—"Indeed, to use a metaphor of the kitchen, the meat of the matter is buried deep in the verbal suet of an impenetrable Parliamentary pudding."
"That suets inv," interjected learned counsel for the Commissioners.
"Eh?" said his lordship, said, my lord, that suets me."
"Gorblimey! said his lordship faintly. "Adjourned until to-morrow, 'Take me home, someone'
They tipped back his chair gently,
seam.
carried him out, He-never joked
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