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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3666, 30 October 1912, Page 11

Mr. Sims Reeves told this storv -n his reminiscences. "i was paying the part of Tom Tug in company with my excellent friend Toole, who was also a member of the east. !n Toe Waterman’ a word or two of gag s held to be permissible, and par Gy t<> amuse the audience, partly to astonis l my excellent fellow-actor, I said to him in a certain scene, in reply go his question, ‘What’s the meaning of all this?’ ‘The meaning of it is that you’ve been made a tool of, and I’m a pappy fellow.’ Johnnie looked very much surprised, and as a popular comedian does not, if ho can help n. allow himself to bo scored off, no, niter a moment’s reflection, during which he must have suffered the prone it agony, he replied: ‘So it sims. ’

A remarkable incident was obscivcd the other day by keepers who were watching a pair of golden eagles who had chosen a ledge of rock in one of the lonely corners of Glenfiddick Deer Forest to rear their young. The male carle was seen to rise- with a grouse in‘'its talons, and when it had soared high above the eyrie it gave a screeching sound as if calling to its mate m the nest below. The female at once left the nest, when the cock dropped the grouse which was caught m midair bv the female bird and at once conveyed to the nest. This consists of a huge structure of sticks and heather.

The Bishop of Hereford once told the story of the young lady who refused to tell her age. The day before her birthday her lover said ho had guessed her age and would send her a rose for every hour. He called at liis florists’ on the way home and ordered the assistant to send the lady “eighteen” of their finest roses early next morning. After he had gone the proprietor happened to glance through the order hook 1 see Mr. Blank has ordered eighteen roses,” he remarked to the assistant. “He’s been a very good customer to ns lately. Throw in another dozen.’ That is why “thirty” roses arrived; and that, in turn, is why the engagement was violently broken, off. Warder: “Your mother-in-law to see vou in the visitors’ ward.” Convict 66: ‘‘Oo ’olp! I ell ’or I ain’t at ’ome!” Would you like to enjoy a rare luxury'3 You can do so by bavins: a Turkish 1 Bath' at the Grev Street Hot Baths A hot air bath, followed by a warm plunge and a cold shower, will make you feel clean right through, acid remove all traces of stiffness or Jtrtigue. Put it to the test..*