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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8757, 6 March 1907, Page 1

30/mna beststime-keepek; you EVEE CARRIED from G. SHORT, " OHEAPSIDE," PBILDING. JACK-TAR AT HIS TRICKS. Two sailors were ono Sunday sitting in the gallery of an old country church, paying very great attention to the service. During the sermon one of them heard a distinct sound of snoring coming up from the body of the church, and, looking down, he saw a fat old farmer fast asleep, his head thrown well back and his mouth wide open. The temptation was too strong for Jack, who, making up a plug of tobacco, shut one eye, and, glancing along an imaginary plumb-line, dropped it into the old man's mouth, causing the old fellow to close it with a snap, and a jump to his feet, spluttering, and with a face almost purple. Confusion resigned supreme, and Jack's chum innocently asked—- " What's up, Jack ? Man overboard ?" "No," said Jack, exploding with suppressed laughter, " I dropped a bit of 'baccy plumb down the main hatchway, and into his old grogtub !"

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