Shanghai—we beg his pardon, Colonel Davis-—was at Shortland yesterday evening, and for a considerable time was engaged in an animated discussion with some bystanders as to who was the greatest personage, George Washington, Sir George Grey, or Frederick Whitaker. After a long debate, Shanghai decided that the two W's were equally great.and the Premier not a " sarcum3tance " to either of them. Having been informed that the Fourth of July was still five months distant, he departed on his homeward journey. . Ask " Who'll go after water ? " at a baseball match and fifty urchins will poke their heads over the fence; while if a gang of men at work on the street ask the question, the silence is as thick as molasses in cold weather.
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3113, 8 February 1879, Page 3
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