Ifc will be found on reference to an advertisement in another column, that Mr. Frank Mountain, the well known host of Greytown, has taken the New Zealander Hotel, Mannersstreet. ' , '' ' 1 The Grandpa.—The grandpa iz an individual somewhere between fifty and one hundred years; old, anddz common occurence in all well; regulated familys. Next toa healthy mother-in-law, they- have more biznesson hand than enny'other party * in’the household. They are the standing authority on all leading topicks, and wbat they don’t know about what happened sixty-five years ago, or .what >vill happen for, the next three years to come, iz a damage for every body to kho.' Grandpas are poor help to bringing up children. ■ They are full of precept and katekism,: but ;the young ones all seem, to understand that grandpa ; minds them a heap more than they mind’ grandpa.— Josh Billings. 1 ■ t , ' V
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5278, 23 February 1878, Page 3
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