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Mt Benger Mail, Volume 17, Issue 854, 5 September 1896, Page 4

| Citizen (to country editor): "That was a very handsome notice you gave me in this week's paper, Shears, and I calto4 iu—to, for a year?" Citizeh: "N-no, to see if you had an old copy lying about anywhere." Small Boy: " Say, pa, teacher said today: 'Study hard, boys, time flies.'" Father: " Very true, my son." Small Boy; "Well, and a little while after he said i 'Time leaves footprints.' Now, pa, how cao time leave footprints if it flies." " I don't yike you, Aunt Jenny," said Wilbur, after his aunt had interfered with some cherished idea he had in mind. " An' if you don't let me alone I'll save up my pottet money an' buy a tapir." " A what!' asked his aunt. " A tapir," said Wilbur. " An' tapirs they eats ants! $ Old Bachelor : "Do you expect to marry, or do you prefer to keep your liberty, Mies Van Sand?" Miss Van Sand: "What a unn y question ! I intend to do both," Two young men were fined 10s and costs for riding bicycles on the footpath atOamaru on Friday last. Customer (reading bni.of fare}: " Oysters ! Hm, oysters are not considered good this month." Waiter : "Qflite right* sir, but ours were left over from last month."