"Well, well, well," cried Mrs. Henpeck. "Our eon is engaged to bo married. Wo will write to the dear lad and congratulate him. Mr. Henpeck agreed (he dare not do otherwise), and his lady picked up her pen. "My darlin" boy," read the son, "what glorious news. Your father and I rejoico in your happiness. It has long been our greatest wish thai, you should marry some good woman. A good woman is heaven's most precious gift to man ■ Sho.brings out all tho best in him and holps him to repress all that is evil. Her price is above rubies." Then tbere was a postcript in a different bandwriting: "Your mother has gone for a stamp. Keep single, you young noodle I" A Chinaman whose life was heavily insured foil from a wagon and was badly injured. Thero were some doubts as to his ever getting better, and at last ono of his brother Chinamen wrote to the insuranco company: "Charlie half dead; likeo half money."
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 64, 8 December 1917, Page 10
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