Merry-thoughts on men and things.

Date:
[Between 1860 and 1865?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Merry-thoughts on men and things. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Why Not? An honest Highlander observed a magnificent man in full tartans standing at the door of the Blair Athole Hotel, and noticed, with much admiration, the wide dimensions of his nostrils in a fine up-turned nose. He accosted him, and, as a most complimentary act, offered him his mull for a pinch. The stranger drew up, and rather haughtily said, “ I never take snuff!” “Oh !” said the other, “that’s a peety, for there’s grand accommodation.” _ Medical Discovery* “Miss, your fare.” “Well,” said the lady, “ they say at home that I am good-looking, but I don’t see why you want to say it out so loud.” Not a Good Customer. A City man who takes a business view of things, when asked recently about a person of a poetic tempera¬ ment said, “ Oh, he is one of those men who have soarings after the in¬ definite and divings after the un¬ fathomable, but who never pay cash.”