THE ESSENCE OF SLOTH. In a certain part cf Devonshire there lived a champion man, a joiner by trade, and after repeated dismissals from his employment he was at length forcibly laid in a coffin by his shop-mates for a joke, and carried of! for burial. On their way they were met by a farmer, who asked how long the man had been dead. "'He ain't dead," was the reply, "but we intend tq bury him. He's that lazy 152 s}iqu]fl pot be allowed to live." At the farmer's request Ul2 men took off the lid of the coffin, when the farmer asked the lazy man if he thought he could eat two or three boiled potatoes." "Are they peeled ?" inquired the man. "No," rcpMcd the farmer. "Ah, well, let the funeral proceed." For all the disorders of the tongue the remedy must begin at the heart. —Abe. Leigliton. 1336.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 656, 1 April 1914, Page 6
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150Page 6 Advertisements Column 3 King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 656, 1 April 1914, Page 6
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