A gentleman was awakened in the night, and told that his wife was dend. He turned over, drew the coverlet closer, pulled down his nightcap, and muttered, as he went to sleep again, "Ah ! how grieved I shall be in the morning !" Canning and another gentleman were looking at a picture of the deluge; the ark was in the middle-distance; in the fore-sea an elephant was seen struggling with his fate. " I wonder," said the gentleman, " that the elephant did not seek an inside place." He was too late, my friend, replied Canning; he was detained packing np his trunk."
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1208, 28 December 1871, Page 2
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100Untitled Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 18, Issue 1208, 28 December 1871, Page 2
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