Young America.
Said old Mrs : Philanthrophy the other day, accosting a precocious urchin in the street, with a wardrobe remarkable for its ventilating advantages, "Bubby, why don't you go horne "**and have your mother sew up that awful hole in your trousers?" " Oh, you git eout, old 'oqman," was the respectful reply, "our folks; is economising, and a hole will wear longer than a patch any day." The youngster beat a retreat round the corner, displaying, a flag of truce in the-rear. -
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Colonist, Issue 133, 28 January 1859, Page 4
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82Young America. Colonist, Issue 133, 28 January 1859, Page 4
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