A Patient complained to hia phy-sician-that he was pursued by a ghost the night before, as he was going home rom the tavern. " What shape was it ?" asked the doctor. :" In the shape of, an ass," replied the man; " G-o home," said the ;doetor, " and keep sober. - Tou w r ere -tipsylast night-, arid frightened by your own shadow!" - r H A Good Reason—A certain minister going; to visit one of his:sick ioners, asked him how he had rested during ths night. " Oh, wondrous4ll/ sir, replied'he, "for mine eyes hav6 not come together these; three nights." " What ds the reason of?that?said the other. " Alas ! sir," says, he, " because mv nose was betwixt.them.'' A Pig-Dealer's Dear Jeames, —liiveb'nwerry unforfcnight with They, pigs won have bin. confined with the cat-tell plage and totheriwith a familee of 3 lade lip, with . mizzels hooping this WiMnd you, Wei as it le\'es me, A presen, sovv no: tfioor Irorrvme at present. Yor troolie R. 11." |, —All the Year .Round.
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 183, 6 September 1872, Page 6
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