THE SADDEST SONG. He was one of those impetuous plungers who speculate their savings in Wjest Africans —with the difference that he had speculated not only all his savings on them, but a little bit extra, to see if he couldn't "even up." And to-day had come the news that West Africans were slumping worse than ever. As he sipped his cup of afternoon tea at his , wife's Fi'rst Thursday he brooded gloomily over his misfortunes. "Don't you think, Mr. Stox," said a fair young caller to him, " that the opening lines of Tennyson's poem, ' Break, break, break,' are wonderfully plaintive and sad ?" "Yes," was the melancholy reply; "but I think that 'Broke, broke, broke.' is a good deal sadder I''
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King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 276, 13 July 1910, Page 3
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134Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 276, 13 July 1910, Page 3
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