There are some marriages which remind us of the poor fellow who said :—“ She couldn’t get any husband and I couldn’t get any wife, so we got married.” It takes forty-horse lung power to awaken the sleeping schoolboy in time to escape a tardy mark; but on holidays he will group around the house in the early twilight, all out of sorts because breakfast is not readv.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 109, 18 April 1884, Page 2
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67Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 109, 18 April 1884, Page 2
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