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Mine. Dupont had a terrible temper, and fcer husband was much in awe of her._ One day, in his own den, he was discoursing i o « few choice friends concerning some of her ** peculiarities. "I have thought for some time," he 6aid, "that my wife was utterly devoid of taste, but the other day she put on a new dress in wnioh she out-Heroded Herod, it was so awful, and as she went out I leaned out of the window to have another look at her and " At this moment his wife entered sud <Jenly. "And the funniest part of the whoie iHhing," went on Dupont without turning a lair, "was that they found the cow 11 days after on the third platform of the Eiffel Tower." Mme. Dupont never understood what there was in' this silly statement .to make /them all laugh so much.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2809, 15 January 1908, Page 91
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