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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 494, 8 April 1881, Page 2

We every day sacrifice principles which we esteem, through fear of being blamed by the people whom we despise. We should r.ever remember the benefits we have conferred, nor forget the favors received. The Danbury News tells of an Irishman who found a Government blanket recently, and rolling it up put it under his arm and walked off saying :—'• Vis. that's moine— U for Pathrick, and Sfor McCarty ; be me sowl, but this learnin' is a foiue thing, as me father would say ; for if I hadn't an ediration I wouldn't have been afther findin' intf blanket." - Girls have an off-handed way of doing business in Montana. The other day a young man called to visit his sweetheart, when she took him by the ear and led him to a seat, 1 addressing him thusly : "Nobby, you have been fooling round 'bout this claim for mighty nigh a twelvemonth and haven't yet opened your mouth on the marrying business.' 'I've cottoned to you on the square'clean through, and have stood off every other galoot that's tried to chip in, and I want you to come to business or leave the ranch. If you want a pard' that '11 stick to you till the Lord calls yeh to pass in your checks just, squeak and we'll get hitched. If thataint' yer game clear out and give somo other] fellah a show for his pile, Now then, sing I your song, or skip out." He sang.