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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 415, 28 April 1904, Page 2

' i say, my boy,' he remarked, «is there anything to shoot down here ?' The boy looted round for a moment, and then answered with eagerness: ' Ay, there's the skulemaißter comin' ower the hill '

At a rummage sale recently an old Irish woman purchased a cracked saucepan for a penny. Ooe of the lady helpers coming up to her, asked whether she knew it leaked, and what she would usß it for, whereupon the woman replied, ' I will keep it to lend to Mrs Murphy when she comes to borrow my now one. I always loike to oblige a neighbour, shore!'

Maggie: 'No, Jim mi e, I cannot marry you, but I will be a sister to you, and you kin still take me to see things.' Jimmie : 'Oh, I kin, kin < ? Well. I've taken you ter enough shown thi3 season ter last six sisters a lifetime 1'

'We've had to dismiss our coachman.' 1 For what reason.' 'He got ambitious, and wanted to be paid regularly.' V .