THE AFFABLE MAN.
A mother and her babe were among the many passengers waiting at a Western' depot recently. She had the child carefully wrapped up, and this fact attracted the attention of a big fellow with a three storey overcoat, and rusty satchel in his band. Sitting down beside her, he remarked: ' Cold weather for such little people, isn't it ?' She faintly nodded. ' Does he seem to feel it much ?' continued the man. She shook her head. • -Is it a healthy child ? ' he asked seemgreatly interested. ' He was up to a few months ago,' she snapped outj * but I'm afraid he has stnelled whisky so much around here, that he'll have the delirium tremens before night?' The man got right up and walked out , of the room, and was afterwards seen buy* ing cloves;
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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3061, 6 December 1878, Page 4
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135THE AFFABLE MAN. Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3061, 6 December 1878, Page 4
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