A youngster, while warming his hands over the kitchen fire, was remonstrated with by his father, who said, “Go ’way from the stove ; the weather is not cold.” The little fellow, looking up demurely at his stern parent, replied, “ I ain’t heating the weather, I am warming my hands.” A few days ago an elegantly deessed lady got into a car, and although the day was cool, she could not wear her gloves on account of her many diamond rings. A baulky horse having twice stopped the car, the lady went to the door, and, looking at the team for a few moments, said to the driver—- “ That ’ere off horse ain’t used to be druv on that ’ere side.” And that was just the trouble in spite of the diamonds,
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Globe, Volume VI, Issue 643, 11 July 1876, Page 3
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