A well-known poet called the British reviewers “chimney-sweeps ’ in his new poem. The thing is explained by tho fact that when they “ flue” at him he had a “brush” with them, and they didn’t “soot” him. A clergyman says that while visiting a coloured school in the South he asked a tiny darker what ho studied for, and what was his object in attending school. Hesitating for a moment or two. the little fellow answered, “ To git olSs,"
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Dunstan Times, Issue 848, 19 July 1878, Page 2
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78Page 2 Advertisements Column 5 Dunstan Times, Issue 848, 19 July 1878, Page 2
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