Station Sergeant: “Are you married?” . T Prisoner: “No, sir. Officer: “Beggin’ your pardon, sarge, he’s wrong. When we searched him we found in liis pockets a clipped receipt for curin’ croup, a sample or silk, >an’ two unposted letters in a woman’s liandwritin’ a week old.
“I can’t stay long,” said the chairman of the committee from the colored church. “I just come to see ei yo wbuldi/t join 4 mission band.” ' “Fo’ do lan’ sakes, lioney/ was the reply, “doan’ come to mol 1 can t even play -a. moul -organ !”
“Do you call this steak fit foi .a Christian to eat-?’/ asked the man in the restaurant. . “We hain’t providin’ _ for do religion of -sac aKisiK)mere, sir! said the waiter.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2366, 5 December 1908, Page 9 (Supplement)
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