HARD LINES. “What was Helen crying about, Polly?” asked Polly’s grandmother, as the little one came in from the playground. . “She dug a great big hole in the garden, and lier mamma wouldn’t let her take it into the house with her,” said. Polly. WHY NOT? A Washington man on u recent visit to a benighted section of- a South-Wester]! State had ridden for twenty miles alopg the hanks of a river without coming across a single fisherman. Meeting a man lounging near tlie stream, he asked: - “Why doesn’t, someone fish'.in this river ?” - • . —y“ Ain’t “Ain’t no fish,” was tlie laconic response of tlie native. “Na fish in such a beautiful river as this!” exclaimed the astonished Washingtonian, “Why not?” “ ' Tlie native lazily shifted liis position and answered : “Stranger, ef you. could get outer this country as easy as a fish cun, do you teckpu you’d he here?"
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2054, 4 December 1907, Page 5 (Supplement)
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