" India, my boy, 1 ' said an Irishman to a friend on liis arrival at Calcutta, " is jist the finest climate under the sun ; but a lot of young felhrvs come out here, and dbrink and they eat, and they dhrink and they die; aud then they write home to their friends a pack o' iies, and says it's the climate has killed ..hern." It was remarked by Dionysius, the sophist, in counselling moderation in pleasure, " that honey should be eaten from the tip of the finger."
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1338, 1 June 1872, Page 3
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86Untitled Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1338, 1 June 1872, Page 3
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