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Evening Star, Issue 3370, 8 December 1873, Page 2

A learned Aberdeen naturalist gave the answer that the unicorn is called the unioorn because of his unique horn. If a man marry a ballet-dancer, may it not be said that all the children she may present him with will have* step-mother ?— Punch. Obeyed to the Letter: A man - who had missed his way overtook a boy going with a pot of tar to mark his master’s sheep. Ho asked him the road to Banff, but was directed by so many turnings that he agreed to take the boy behind him on his horse. Finding the boy pert and docile, he gave him some wholesome advice, adding, occasionally, ‘'Mark me well, my boy.” “ Yea, sir, I do.” He repeated the injunction so often that the boy at last cried out, “I cauna mark ye ony mair, as the tar has gi’ea oot.”