THE TOWN BOARD ELECTION.
The following quotations will be read with interest at the present time : AI.KXANDF.iI Blasts. — I am no orator, as Brutus is; But, as you know me all. a plain blunt man. That love my friend. H. W. Baton*.— I will die hravelv like a suing bridegroom. \Vhat I I will be jovial. Joseph Burrow*.— My brains are dry as the remainder biscuit after a voyage. Davin Cmtwa.— Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow. Thou shalt not escape calumny. J. H. C«i«r.— Shall I not take mine ease in mine uin ? Jons Grkoory.— Get thee glass eye ; And, like a scurvy politician, seem To see the tilings thou dost not. John Ufa HRS. — Suit the action to the wool, the word to tile action; with this s|<ecial observance, that yon u'srstep uot the modesty of nature. Thomas Mii.i.eh.— Where is thy leather apron and thy oils ? What dost thou with thy beat apparvl on ? Edward Natuir.— I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus. The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news. Alex. Reese.— When he speaks. The air. a charter'd libertine, ia stiff. And the mute wonder lurked in men's ears To seal hi* sweet and honeyed sentence*. J. B. Shklbotrne. — How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! WIt.!.!AM WaKKMAN. I only s|>eak right on ; I tell you that which you alrrady know.
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Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 25, 31 August 1886, Page 2
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248THE TOWN BOARD ELECTION. Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 1, Issue 25, 31 August 1886, Page 2
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