A hen-pecked husband said, in extenuation of his wife's rai ds upon his scalp, "You see, she takes her own hair off so easily she doesn't know how it hurts to have mine pulled out " A Hindostanee work on music says that "music is the painfully acquired art of speaking very loud in a shrill voice.' ' " Debt," remarks Josh Billings, "iz a trap which a man zets and baits himself, and then deliberately falls into." Why is a telephone like a good little boy ? — Because it only speaks when it is spoken to.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume I, Issue 60, 25 March 1879, Page 3
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93Untitled Manawatu Herald, Volume I, Issue 60, 25 March 1879, Page 3
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