"One of the exquisite features was the presence of the Deacon's wives. We had 83 upon our Roll of Honour, and of these 36 turned up."—Parish Magazine.
The other forty-seven being presumably engaged in looking after the Deacon.
"In addition to the fine work done by the Irish regiments he assured them that many a warm Irish heart beat under a Scottish kilt."—Local Paper.
Surely Irishmen enlisted in Scottish regiments are not so down-hearted as all that!
THE TALE OF THE TUNEFUL TUB.
["Why do so many people sing in the bathroom?... The note is struck for them by the running water. While the voice sounds resonantly in the bath-room it is not half so fine and inspiring when the song is continued in the dressing-room. The reason is that the furniture of the dressing-room tends to deaden the reverberations."—Prof. W.H. Bragg on "The World of Sound."]
When to my morning tub I go,