“ How do you like the look of the varmint ?” asked au Arkanans of a Down Easter who was gazing with distended eyes at an alligator with open jaws on the bank of the Mississippi. “ Wa’al,” responded the Yankee, recovering his mental equipoise, “he aint what you w’d call a han’some critter, but he’s a deal of openness when he smiles.” A Dilemma.. —A gentleman asked a clergyman the use of his pulpit for a young divine, a relation of his. “ I reaily do not know,” said the clergyman, “how to refuse you; but if the young man can preach better than I can, my congregation would be dissatisfied with me afterwards ; and if he should preacij worse, I don’t think he’s fit to preach at all.”
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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2092, 19 January 1870, Page 2
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126Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2092, 19 January 1870, Page 2
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