A tailor was startled the other day by the return of a bill which he had sent to an editor with a notice that the “ manuscript was respectfully declined.” Old Professor Spectacle* said to the class, “How do you pronounce s-t-i-n-g-y ?” The smartest boy of the class stood up and said, “That depends a great deal on whether you mean to use it on a man or a wasp,”
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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2380, 18 November 1881, Page 3
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69Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2380, 18 November 1881, Page 3
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