A Maine man who said he didn't care two shakes of a lamb's tail about the newspapers, rode fourteen miles through a fierce snowstorm to get a copy of a weekly that spoke of him as " a prominent citizen."
It is said that a minister in a country kirk Btopped in the course of his sermon to ask a member who was deaf, " Are you hearing John ?" " Oh, ay," was the response. " I am hearing, but to Terra little purpose,"
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3002, 8 February 1881, Page 3
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