A Miss Grilmore was courted by a man whose name was Haddock, who told her; that he wanted only one gill more to make him a perfectfish. ■ ■ - *.-- A man made a wager that he had seen! a horse going at his greatest speed, and a dog sitting on his tail, and he won—but thedog sat on his bwn'tail/ ' An old bachelor, on seeing the words/ ." Families supplied," over the door of an oyster saloon, stepped in, and said" he would take a wife and two children. Under the- head of " Broken English,"; an American paper places such Englishmen as get smashed up, by railway collisions, or who financially come to grief.
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1975, 4 May 1875, Page 2
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111Untitled Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1975, 4 May 1875, Page 2
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