Snooker and Brown
Wellington Times, 13 October 1904
Snooker: You’re in a brown study, old man.
Brown: Hallo! Yes, my wife told me to stop at the market and get something, and I can’t think what it was.
Snooker: Have a cigar. Maybe that’ll help you to think
Brown: Ah, that’s it. Now I remember. She wanted a cabbage.