The Round Table.
■ '-'".:'-. .h-MO.'-f-T-. 1 -: ' ' ' A, member of Congress from tie Far West who was invited to a ainner at Washington, is now felling his constituents fi W"i ' there w '^ >fc wytang on the table when I got there^ he 'aw*, • but some forks and: spoons and briekjUrace. Presentfy ■ :they brought in-f some soup. ' Asldidn t s.ee.nflt^n'.fllse, I thought Pd .•■»'*» could, though soup is a wghty poor dinner to .invite a feUer to. So X was helped four times; and' then came on the finest' dinner I ever seei and there I set, groans he, < chock-full df soup V > Are the internal ractiofybur daughter's eyes of exactly similar strength ?» asked a Boston- sehopj^nacm of af.pupU's mother. 1 mean, : she .continued, as she; saw a look qE vague winder, overspreading the face of the woman, who had never heard of Ooncerd, both' eje* eqfially hyper, opic, or has she' used the ciliary -muscle too much?' The- woman rose'fi^ly. Hannah Jane -squints, ;i if thata- what yqu're^dwingraV said,, indignantly : f , r out^s^e a gqt tense >np,ugU to say what she means, and I won J c leave her hera to be made a fool of ;' .and .she flounced but with her. offspring, while' the teacher explained to the scbooPth'at squint means a of tbe'lensof iheopticWgans '
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 17, 18 December 1883, Page 2
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213The Round Table. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 17, 18 December 1883, Page 2
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