SELECT POETRY.
THE ADVANTAGE OF TAKING A I NEWSPAPER. 1 knew two friends so much alike, As e’er you saw two stumps ; And no phrenologist could find A difference in their bumps. One took a paper, and his life Was happier than a king ; His children all could read and write, And talk of men and things. The other took no paper, and, While strolling through the wood, A tree fell down upon his crown, And killed him—as it should ! Had he been reading of the nows At home, like neighbour Jim, I’ll bet a. cent this accident Had not befallen him ! —A merican Paper. H
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Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 120, 27 February 1872, Page 6
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106SELECT POETRY. Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 120, 27 February 1872, Page 6
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