HIS PROBABLE FATE "'Waal, some ways I'd like to an' some ways I guess I wouldn't, said honest Farmer Bentover, when the suave dispenser of encyclopaedias had paused in his siren son .sr. sec., if I had to sign for that 'ere cyclopedee in forty-seven parts, includin the index an' appendicitis, I'm sorter afraid I'd liev to work so hard to pay for it thet I'd be too tired to enjoy readin' it ; while if I read it at my leesure, asi I'd ort to, in order to set the good of it, I wouldn't hev time; to earn the price. So all things considered, I guess I'll hcv to deny myself the privilege, as it were. Looks sorter like, rain of/ f .o the north-west, don't it ?"
MORE THAN HIS MATCH. "Say," roared the irate citizen, as he bounced into the office of the country newspaper, "where's the editor ?" '"Want to see him personally ?" queried the office-boy. "Of course I do," answered the caller. "I'm going to thrash him within an inch 4of his life." "Oh, all riglit," answered the boy "Just take a. seat, please. There are three others ahead of you. II you watch you'll see 'era come through the window one by on 3. When the third corned down you can go up." But the visitor. • decided to postpone his -trip. ■ -
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 473, 12 June 1912, Page 7
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225Page 7 Advertisements Column 2 King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 473, 12 June 1912, Page 7
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