V minister passing near some coalpits in Scotland tho other day heard a collier swearing most outrageously at having fallen into a pool of mud. Young man ” said the minister, do you know where you are "oine to Ay." “id the collier, “ a’m gauu tae my warkup-by there.”—“No, my dear young man said the minister, with a solemn shake of the head, and a warning wave of the hand, “ yon are going to the bottomless pit,”-“ Man, you dinua ken mucklo about nits. I see;" replied the collier, "for I hao wrocht in maislly every pit in the country, an’X never saw far loss heard tell o’ a pit withoot a bottom 1 “MV articles do not receive a very warm reception of late,” wrote a lady to a conductor of a monthly magazine. “Our fair correspondent is mistaken,” replied the editor; they meet with the warmest reception possible. We burn them all.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5142, 15 September 1877, Page 5 (Supplement)
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