"Alas!" sighed,ihe poet, "the .world does not understand ■ me." /ft ell, cheer un," rejoined the practical person,"That is something to, be thankful for, I'm sure." ■ . Riggs: "Did your wife's father: settle anything' on von when, you married his daughter?" 'Briggs: "You bet he did. He settled himself on us, and we can't get rid of him." ! "Could you let me have. a , little money?" "What for?" asked the' person who tries to be smart." ' "Because I want something to eat." "Sorry; but I haven't any edible money with me."Wc cannot but feel that as between.the man who mortgages the;, home, to buy an automobile and the man who .rocks the boat, there is, if not actual relationship, at least a sympathetic understanding. Mifkins: "Old .Givings is a charitable sort of man, isn't he?" Bifkins: "Yes,in a way. He's one of those chaps who cast their bread upon the and , expect it to come back in tjio guise of a sardine sandwich."' ■' .. .
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1012, 30 December 1910, Page 6
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161Page 6 Advertisements Column 7 Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1012, 30 December 1910, Page 6
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