An attendant at Mount Vernou not long ago observed a lady weeping most bitterly, her handkerchief to her eyes. G-oing up to her, he said, " Are you in trouble, madam ?" " No, sir," she sobbed. " I saw you weepiDg." " Ah!" she said, " how can one help weeping at the grave of the Father of his Country!" "Oh, indeed, madam," siid he, " that's it! The tomb's over yonder. This is the ice house."
The " New Cxjt."—One of the shrewdest of parish beadles was Saunders Grant, village tailor at M . " How is it, Saunders," inquired the minister, " that these two young neighbors of mine have their churches quite full, while, though I preach the same sermons that I did twenty years ago, my people are falling off?" "WeeJ, Bir, I'll tell ye," said Saunders ; " it is just wi' you as wi 5 mysel'. I sew just as weel as ever I did ; jet that punelf, , has tarn my business inaist clean awa'. It's no the sewing that'll do, sir; it's the new cvt —it's just the new cut!"
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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 548, 12 October 1871, Page 2
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