Why is a dog's tail a great novelty ? Beoau.se ! no one ever saw it before. " None but the brave deserve the fair," and none but the brave can live with some of them. "Boy, where does this road go to?" "Nowhere, as I knows on. It's allers staid here." Why is an egg overdone like one underdone ? Because it is hardly done. Why are most government officials like postage stamps ? Because thjy are poor sticks. Much benevolence consists in an ambition to distribute others' money. Why is & tom-cat like a Burgoo . ? Because they both mew-till-late. " Pride goeth before a fall,' 1 r»n<l many a was terfall. Men of the noblest di^po-if ion think themselves happiest when others share tueir happiness with them. When do we read of decaying nature t When Autumn turns the leaves. A man from the Auburn prison says he lost I there all his admiration for auburn locks. Bells and prießta may call others to holiness, and know nothing of it themselves. 1 A modest woman must often neither see nor 1 here.
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Southland Times, Issue 1010, 26 August 1868, Page 2
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