There is no occasion to trample on th c meanest reptile, nor. to sneak to the greatest prince. Insolence aud baseness are. equally unmanly. M Mick," said a bricklayer to his labourer, "if you meet Patrick, tell him to make haste, as we are waiting for him." " Shure an' I will," replied Mick ; "but what will I tell him if I don't meet him !" A sporting man remarked on a belle, in the bal.ifc of. wiring low-necked dresses, who carried off a matrimonial prize in the shape of a rich old Avidower, that, "she won the race by a neck !" Ah Irishman who was reprieved the night before his execution, and who wished to get rid of. his wife, wrote to her as follows .-—1 was yesterday hanged, and died like a hero j do as 1 did and bear it liko a man.
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Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 704, 23 July 1870, Page 2
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