“As to being conflicted with the gout,” said Mrs Partington, “ high living doesn’t bring it on. It is incoherent in some families, and is handed down from father to son. Mr Hammer, poor soul, who has been so long ill with it, disinherits it from his wife’s grandmother.” A physician, on being enquired of concerning a friend, replied that he had been arrested, by death for taking the typhus fever. ” A merchantonhis death bed sent fora Free Church clergyman. Haring some fears regarding his future prospect he asked the reverend gentlemen, “Do you think if I were to leave LIO,OOO to the Free Kirk that my soul would be saved ?” ‘ ‘ Well, ” auswe ed the cautious minister, “ I couldn’t just prq ; miso you that, jbut I think the experimeptj worth trying.” '
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Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2302, 22 September 1870, Page 2
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130Untitled Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2302, 22 September 1870, Page 2
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