People live uncommon long at Brighton, There are two men there so old that they have forgotten who they are, and there is nobody alive who can remember it for them.
A merchant lately advertising for a clerk " who could bear confinement." received an answer from one who had been ten years in prison !
A little girl who was much petted said : " I like sitting on gentlemen's knees better than on ladies, donfc you, ma ?"
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 472, 1 February 1881, Page 3
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75Untitled Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 472, 1 February 1881, Page 3
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