A PATIENT complained to his physician that he was pursued by a goat the night before, as he Avas going home from the tavern. "What shape Avas it?” asked the doctor. ‘‘ln the shape of a jackass,” said the man. “Go home, replied the physician, " and keep sober. You Avere drunk last night, and frightened by your OAvn shadow!” Dr. Russel says the reason why Sunday is the hottest day of the Aveck is because people have nothing else to do but scrotiu* ise the Aveather.
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Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 58, 13 December 1871, Page 3
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