Mat M. was a queer genius. A neigh* bour found him at work once at an enormous wood-pile, sawing away for dear life, with an intolerably dull saw.— " Why dou't you sharpen your saw, Mat?" asked the neighbour,—'Looking up with an inimitable dull expression, he replied, "I should think I had work enough to saw up this woodpile without stopping to sharpen saws." In at the death—A bullet.
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3648, 4 September 1880, Page 2
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68Page 2 Advertisements Column 4 Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3648, 4 September 1880, Page 2
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