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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2734, 12 February 1910, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE OBVIOUS. The brother of a young naturalist went to a bookshop to buy a. present. He tokl the clerk that he wanted some kind of a volume dealing with natural history to give to his brother, a zoologist.' Could he recommend one? The clerk glanced over the shelves with a knowing air. At last he pulled down a book. ‘‘This would interest him.” ho remarked. “It is ' one of our best authors.” “Let mo see it,” said the purchaser. The clerk handed it to him. On the back, in largo letters, Avas the word “Anthology.” “All about ants,” commented the clerk. COMPLICATED FEATURES'. Mr. Hammond’s face was so ugly as to be almost grotesque, although nobody ever thought about his looks after hearing him talk. “If I hadn’t known I was one of the homeliest people, in the world, I might have been surprised at a remark made by old Pomp, the. body servant of one of my Southern friends,” he once said. “I hadn’t seen Pomp for fifteen years, and! as I had grown from boy to a man in that time, I did not expect him to remember me, but he said: ‘Howdy, Marse Hammond, sail I’ the moment he caught sight of me. “ ‘So you remember me. Pomp,’ 1 said. “ ‘Couldn’t nebber forgit yo 7 face, Marse Hammond, sab, 7 grinned Pomp. ‘Hit’s so kinder complicated !’ ” First: “Yes, I ’card you wos in .the ’ospital. Was yer very had?” Second: “Bad? I should think I u r os bad. Why, a pal o’ mine brings me in a bottle of beer, an’ I couldn’t so much as look at it.” -