" Gentlemen, I can't lie about the horse ; he is blind ml one eye," said the .auctioneer. The horse Avas soon knocked 'down to a spectator who had been great'y struck by the auctioneer's honesty. After paying for the " horse, lie said:—" You were honest enough to tell me that this animal Avas blind in one eye. Is there any other defect ?"—" Yes, sir, there is. He is also blind in the other eye," Avas tho prompt reply.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 492, 1 April 1881, Page 2
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77Untitled Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 492, 1 April 1881, Page 2
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