Times are so bad in some places just now that people can't even pay attention. A Yankee, one day, asked his lawyer how an heiress might be carried off. " You cannot do it with safety,'-' said the counsellor ; " but I'll tell you what you may do. Let her mount a horse, and hold a bridle-whip ; do you then mount behind her, and you are safe, for she runs away with you." The next day the lawyer found that it was his own daughter who ha 1 ruu away with] his client.
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Southland Times, Issue 1564, 16 April 1872, Page 3
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91Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 Southland Times, Issue 1564, 16 April 1872, Page 3
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