Mother: “Now Gerty, be a good girl, and give Aunt Julia a kiss, and say good night.”— Gerty : “Nono I If I kiss her she’ll box my ears, like she did pap*’s last night,” One ear.— Mother,” said Ike Partington, “did you know that the ‘ Iron Horse’ has but one ear?”—“ One ear 1 merciful good-' ness, child, what do you mean?” the engine-eer, of course.” There are queer nooks and corners left in old England. A visitor to a country person tells how, when heaccompanied him, lately, to take the duty in a remote parish, the sexton said, “ Perhaps your reverence wolden’t mind preaching from the chancel, for we’ve got a duck a-settin’ in pulpit.”
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2507, 2 April 1881, Page 4
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116Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 South Canterbury Times, Issue 2507, 2 April 1881, Page 4
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