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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2638, 22 June 1877, Page 2

* Considerate;— in the Wat '6v Rb.-joiNDEB:-rEen_». -jfche. founder of Pennsylvania, abhorred smoking.' His Quaker Council one day, observing himA)proach, laid down their pipes. "I am giuS to see," said JPenn, "that you are ashamed of that viie habit." "Not at alii" returned a principal. Friend; "we only laid "them down lest we should offend a weak brother." - v ".. <■ „■ A Steonct-Minpsp Mamma. —It wai midnight. The young man had farewelled himself out, 7 and ' Emiline ~ had locked the door and, was untying her shoesj when her mother came-downstairs with a* bed-quilt .around;and said: — " Wanted to craep' upstairs without ray hearing you, eh? Didn't think thai I knew that"it "was airhour'after midnight; didn't you ? " The girl had no reply, and the mother continued : —" Did he propose this time?" *" Why— mother I" exclaimed the daughter. "You can' 'why mother' n)l you want to, but don't \. ktiow that he has been • coming: here fqr the last year. Don't I know you're burned up.at least four tons of coal courting around here ? " The "girl' got. her shoes off, and the* mother in " the stair-door asked, "Emiline*/ hire you got any. grit f n_"l fluess.you haven't. I just wish that a feller'witli false teeth and a mole.on his chmjjrqulcf .&>tne sparking me. Do you Ihiow what' wouTd'nappen, Emiline ? " « No." " Well, I'll- tell you. He'd come to time in 60 days or he'd get out this mansion like a goat jumping for sunflower seeds? " Emiline went to bed to reflect over it.