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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2221, 26 October 1907, Page 3 (Supplement)

iMen Ittirn to talk; women talk by instinct. illanum (to Flossie, who lias been lunching with a little friend): I hope you were very polite, Flossie, at the table, and said “Yes, please,” and “No. thank you.” Flossie: Well. 1 didn’t say “No, thank you.” NOT QUITE. A man who had committed suicide by hanging himself in a village horn was .found by a yokel on his return from a day’s work, who immediately set off at a run to inform the police of the village. An inquest was held on the decease d mail, and the yokel was the chief witness. He stood nervously fingering his hat and faced the coroner with a vacant look. “Well,” said that funetonary, “and where did you find this unfortunate man?” “In a barn, yer honor, hanging by a cord to one of the beanie. So I ran and fetched the police, and when I gets to the station, I sez, sez I ” “But,” asked the coroner, “why did you not out him down first?” “Well, you see, yer honour,” the yokel replied confidentially, “’o wasn’t quite dead!”