LONG-HEADED.
Senator Lodge was talking in Boston about certain investigating committees. "Thev are like the brook," he said; " they tiow on for ever. Some of them, in fact, remind mc s'trongly of Si Hosliius. "Si Hosk'ns got a job last spring at shooting musk rati, for muskra,ts overran the mill-owner's-dam. "There, in the' lovely soring weather, Si sat on the grassy bank, his gun on his knee: and, finding hiui thus one morning, 1 said:—- " 'What are you doing, Si?" " 'l'm paid to shoot the muskrats, sir,' he answered. 'They're undcrniinin' the dam.' " 'There goes one now,' Baid I. 'Shoot, man! Why don't you 6hoot ?' "Si puffed fttranquil cloud from his pipe, and said : " 'Do you think J want to lose my iol|? :: Ethel: "What'foolish things a man will do when ho is in lore." Edith (breat'desslr : "Ob Ethel! Has George proposed r"
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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 122, 17 December 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)
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143LONG-HEADED. Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 122, 17 December 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)
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