. When the daughters,; a^s infants mothers are anxious to keep matches out of their reaoh.. It's different when they grow up. • , • . A 1OVS& colonial—which nieana something , quite different from a" young col<?aift—(mvs^ JEglis in the Australian) vpfi!<\i. r hie: pr*-^ dence and meanness in money matting was conversing with a young lady; .The topic of race meeting! came up, Mr M'Aogus having lately; attended one. He» expressed sooh dif; approval of that kiad. of,aaawß«ot ithaa > the lady asked him why he disliked race*. " Oh,!" he . replied, " beoauet tht>y are so expensive— -just idaoj, my trip post me two and sixpence!" " Indeed, 6 •aid his fair interlocutor/: "haw 5 did \yoa ; manage to spend iuch a large f sum 9". "Well, you see," said theun»uspeotiag ltfA^ "it cost me a ■hilling for cab going, sod another for returning." "Yet,** aaid Mies Velvet, "bat how did you dispose of the remaining sixpence f " " Oh," respdttded he in quit* a gay and young>Uo«dish manner, ,«mo«tiy boosipg." , , . A • 1
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3623, 6 August 1880, Page 2
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165Untitled Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3623, 6 August 1880, Page 2
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