''We don't need any of them new fangled scales in Ireland, " said O 'Hara. " There 's an aisy way to weigh a pig without seales. You get a plank and put it across a stool. Then you get a big stone. Put the pig on one end of the plank and the stone on the other, and shift the plank until they balance. Then you guess the weight of the stone, and you have thc ' weight of the pig." 1 s> e> $> s> ■ - i Said the scientist to the chemist: j "Give me some prepared monaceticaci- 1 dester of salicylic acid. " ( "Do you mean aspirin?" asked tlie 1 cliemist. . ] "That's right! 1 can ncvcr thiuk oi'
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 55, 27 November 1937, Page 18
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