"Job" Printing. — We never before heard of the Patriarch indulging in this occupation. It is a great instance, however, of his proverbial patience ; as we can, from bitter experience, aver. An absent-minded recitationist entered a dry-goods store in Brooklyn, ahd asked for a pair of scarlet stockings!. " When shall their glory fade ? " said he, dreamily. " They won't fade a speck,'' answered the clerk. " Oh, the wild charge they made !" "It's 20 per centless than any other house," was the reply, and ihe purchaser put the parcel in his pocket and departed, remarking ' Noble Six Hundred.—American paper
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 223, 6 September 1878, Page 2
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96Untitled Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 223, 6 September 1878, Page 2
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