WHAT DID IT?
The printer was kicking because somebody was at bis case rack and had got things into all sorts of confusion. “ I’d like to know,” he said with more or less profanity, “ who has has been doing this ?” “ Circumstances,” suggested the forman, solemnly. “ Circumstances, nothing,” snorted the printer. “ Its some son of a shooting stick I’d like to slug. Circumstances hasn’t got anything to do with it. The foreman laid his hand on his shoulder kindly. “ You seem to forget,” said he in far away tones, “ that circumstances alter cases,” and the printer bowed his head and wept.
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Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 42, 13 January 1894, Page 3
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100WHAT DID IT? Southern Cross, Volume 1, Issue 42, 13 January 1894, Page 3
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