THE GREY MARE.
There was an old couple at the Central Depot yesterday waiting to go through the West and they seemed loving enough until the old man went and returned smoking a five.cent cigar and with his hat slanting over his left ear. His wife looked at him twice before she could recognise him and then opened her mouth and said, ‘ What’d I tell ye Philetus Remington before we left Now Jersey 1 Did’nt I say you’d make a fool of yourself the first chance you got !’ He tried to pacify her by saying that the cigar cost only five cents, but she shouted, ‘You teased and teased till I lot you get your bools blacked; thou you wanted some soda-water; then you bought apples on the train ; and here’s another five cents thrown away 1 It all counts up, and if you don’t die in the poor-house,; thou my name hain’t 6ary.!'
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Dunstan Times, Issue 715, 31 December 1875, Page 3
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