I An old lady was telling her grandchildren about some troubles in Scotland, in" the course of which the chief of her clan was beheided. "It was nae great thing of a head, to be sure,'.said the old lady, 'but it was a sad loss to him.! i : A- wife who had been lecturing her husband for coming home intoxicated, became incensed at his indifference, and exclaimed, 'Oh, that I could wring, tears of anguish from your eyes/, To which the, hardened wretch I hiccupped,..,' tai—J taint no use, old woman, to bo—bo—bore, for water here.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 523, 26 April 1872, Page 3
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