Pedlar: “Would you like to buy a motto, ‘May our home bo blessed’?'’ Mrs Serann (who keeps a board ing-honse): “No; but if you hav» any reading ‘Curb your appetite’, ‘Eat in moderation,’ or ‘Gluttony is a sin,’ I'll take half-a-dozen.” English Traveller (to Irish railway porter labelling luggage): “Don’t you keep a brush for that work, porter?” Porter: “Sliure, yer homier, our tongues Is the only instlirnnients we’re allowed; bubt they’re a:-y kep' wet. yer homier 1” (Hint taken.) ,“I hope, Jennie, that you hnyo given the matter serious consideration,” sad a lady to a .servant g:il who had “given notice” because she was to he married that dry iw<> weeks. “Oil, I have, ma’am,” was the earnest reply. “I’ve o«-..;i to tvo fortune-tellers and a -:1a irvov 1 at, and looked in an almanac lor a lnckydav. and dreamed on a lock of his hair, and been to one of those astarrologers, and to ia meejum, and they all tell me to go ahead, ma’am. 1 allllt. ,IM.. rs\ nuirrr . .Viw-Vlosc.-. ■! U-.i ,
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2097, 25 January 1908, Page 1 (Supplement)
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174Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2097, 25 January 1908, Page 1 (Supplement)
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