Miss Braddon’s latest farrago of sensation, “ The Golden Calf,” is appearing in the Pictorial World, which journal, by-the-way, is fast distancing, it is said, the Graphic and Illustrated News. An elderly miss was heard to exclaim, while sitting at her toilet the other day> ‘I can bear adversity, lean encounter hardship, and withstand the changes of fickle fortune; but O, to live, and droop, and wither, and die like a single pink, I can’t endure it, and what’s more, I won’t!’ Wit under Difficulties—An’ Irregular apprentice, frequently keeping late hours, his master at length took occasion to abply some weighty arguments to convince Joim of the ‘ error of his ways. ’ During .the chastisement he continually exclaimed — ‘ How long will yon serve the d rr— The boy, whimpering, * You know b&st,’ sip; 1 believe my indenture will be out ia three months.’ ‘ *
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 841, 13 January 1883, Page 2
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141Page 2 Advertisements Column 5 Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 841, 13 January 1883, Page 2
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