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CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE.

A little elderly German who keeps a stationer's shop amuses and interests himself by making up stories a':cut his customers and telling them to bis family. "Bat young lady who has de pink ch-o'.<s. she be married soon, I tin ••." he announced one night. v;o\v, my Carl, you know not-tin-s of her whateffer ; is'it not so ?" an.l his wife tried to look as if she d'd no-, think him a wonderfully clcvc man. . "jf:-. i> like dis," said the stationer, sol:;. :i'y. "I observe, and I know. .f'.t (lest she-.buy paper and envelopes de same ; later she buy twice as more paper, and den five times as more paper as envelopes. So I know she is become betrothed. •'And to-day,'' he said, beaming with pleasure, "to-day she buy only one half-ddzen envelopes and five u.rcs as more paper, and when I tell her she get dem cheaper if she buy many, she says to me, ' I have no need of more, t'ank you,' so I know de friend he comes soon, and so comes de marriage on quickly."

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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 552, 22 March 1913, Page 2

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180

CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE. King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 552, 22 March 1913, Page 2

CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE. King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 552, 22 March 1913, Page 2

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