Cboss Questions and Cbooked Answebs —At a fashionable dinner party the guests had just seated themselves at table, and were rapidly helping themselves to the oysters, pjates containing a dozen of which had been placed between every two persons, when the hostess bepan to talk to. the gentleman next to her of his sons, one of whom lie had recently lost through an accident. "You still have six left, however," she said, in a voice of condolence. " Yes." replied the gentleman, with an exquisite smile, thinking that the oysters were referred to; " but four belong to my neighbour." The Path of Duty.—Through the Customhouse.—" Punch."
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1953, 8 April 1875, Page 2
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105Untitled Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1953, 8 April 1875, Page 2
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