What a Jump !— Sir Wilfrid La wsou, speaking at Aspatria last week, told a story of a Yankee who came running down to a pier just a. a steamer was starting. The boat bad moved off some four or five yards, so be took a great jump, and, coming down on the back of his head, he lay stunned for two or three minutes. When he came to, the boat bad gone the best part of a quarter of a mile, and, raising his head and lo; king to tbe shore, the Yankee said, " Great Jehoshapbat, what a jump 1" Ancient way of rocking a man to sleep. — Stoning him to death. Tbe girl who will almost cry if she happens to let a drop of ink fall on a letter, is never put out in the least when she ia told that she spelled disappointment with one p.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 266, 20 November 1879, Page 6
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