He Made Allowance.
A French journal reports the case of a man who entered a coffee house and sat down near a customer who was reading the morning newspaper which belonged to the establishment. "After you with the paper, if you please," said the newcomer. The other man nodded assent and went on reading, but at the end of half an hour had hardly finished the first column. Just as the waiting customer was about making a second and perhaps impatient application he noticed that the reader had lost one of his organs of eight. His resentment vanished. "Ah," said he in a low voice, "I am not surprised. The poor man has only one eye and has to read everything twice over." — Exchange.
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Manawatu Herald, 21 April 1898, Page 4
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124He Made Allowance. Manawatu Herald, 21 April 1898, Page 4
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