Scribe, the French poet, hired a house in the country to pass the summer. As soon as he was fairly installed in it he went iv search of a farmer who had a milch cow, having found one, he stated his want — "My good man, my servant will como every morning to buy. a pint of milk." "Very well ; it is eight sous." "But I want pure milk, very pure."- "In that ca.-c, it is ten sous. " You will milk in the prestnee of niy servant?" "Oh, then it wil) be fifteen tons." Never flirt v. "th a young widow who calls you by yonr Christian name the second time you meet her, unless you have quite made up your ir.iml to the worst.
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Grey River Argus, Volume VIII, Issue 589, 26 October 1869, Page 4
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