A Confession.—" No, George,” she said, in response to his question, “it is not true that a string of new belt buckles in a shop window would make any woman f lose a train; but,** she added musingly, "sometimes she may have to run a little.” A gentleman was promenading a street with a bright little boy at his side, when the little fellow cried ont: “ Ob, pa, there goes as editor 1” “Hush, hush,” said the father, “don’t make sport of the poor man —God only knows what you may come to yet.” “ Pyschimminy! how dot boy studies de languages,” is what a delightful elderly German said when his four-year-old son called him a blear-eyed ion of a sawhorse.”
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2107, 24 November 1880, Page 2
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120Page 2 Advertisements Column 6 Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2107, 24 November 1880, Page 2
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