"There, now," said a little girl, while rummaging a drawer in a bureau. ; ! f * there, now, grandpa has gone to- heaven without his spectacles." - Hopd mentions a sea toper who never saw a flask or pewter measure that he did not inexorably seize, and, guage-like, try the depth of. He had a son equally fond of potations; on which a neighbor remarked that he took after his father. Whereupon the would-be Trinculo retorted, '^Father leaves none to take. " At a party in modern Athens one of the guests observed her son, (Gharles, eating rather more voraciously than the lays of even northern etiquette allowed.. She watched for an opportunity, and gave him one of those sicjnificant looks which only mothers and elder sisters can command ; but instead of stopping, he said to his iriamina, "Oh, ye needna look and nod for me to stop: Ye ken this was washing day, and I got no dinner J"
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Grey River Argus, Volume VII, Issue 505, 10 April 1869, Page 2
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