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Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 2062, 14 December 1869, Page 2

Purchasing Knowledge— On returning to his family, after an absence of some weeks, Captain Johnson had been driven from Kingstown to Dublin hy a cancan, who, looking discontentedly at the fare paidj him, said, “Share your honor Will give mo a trifle more than this?"—“ Not a rap,” said the r captain.—“Bad luck to me, but you would," persisted Paddy, “if you knew all, then.”—“ What do you jnean ? ’ asked Johnson anxiously.—“Faix, date's tellins, anyway ; and is it only for my fare I'm to tell my news?”—“Well, well,” said the captain, “here’s another shdling, Now, what has happened?”—“Sorra the harm at all,” replied Pat; “only I thought you’d not begrudge a little extra som'at to know that I druv ye the last three miles without a linch-pin.” How is it when a wife is master, she and her husband compose the number ten?— Because she is number one, and he is a cipher.