A local auctioneor advertises for sale a horse which " has been ploughed and harrowed all spring." In America when a man is much plagued by reason of his debts, he is said to suffer from " tick-dollar-eux-"
Claiborne F. Jackson, who was once governor of Mississippi, married five sisters in a wealthy and distinguished family. When he went to ask for the last one, his venerable father-in-law replied, " Yes, Claib, you can have her. You have had them all. For goodness sake don't ask me for the old woman !"
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 2987, 21 January 1881, Page 4
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