An old Negro named Pete was very ' inch troubled about his Bins. " Ob, massa, I'm sich a great sinner." " But, Pete," said his master, " you are foolish to take it so much to heart."- " I know de reason, massa," said Pete. " When you go duck-shooting, and kill one duck and wound another, don't you run after de wounded duck?" •'• Yes, Pete," said hit * master, wondering what was coming next. " Well, massa, dat is de way wid you and me; de debbil has got you sure; but, ai he am not sure ob me, he chases dis chile all de time." The Saxon Oppbessob.—Saxon Tourist: " I suppose the English bay all the pigs .that you wish to sell P," Irish Peasant: " They do. Bad luck to 'em, the toirants!"—Punch.
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2921, 26 June 1878, Page 2
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128Untitled Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2921, 26 June 1878, Page 2
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