When we are young we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to lire as we proposed. An old Scotch woman was scolded by the minister for letting her son swear. " It's vara wrong, meenister," she said ; " but you maun alloo that it sets off the conversation michtily.". ,
A Reporter, in an article on the destitute poor, spoke #f the great number of persons reduced to poverty by the " mysterious decrees of Providence." His astonishment may be imagined when he saw the printer had altered it to " mysterious decrease of provisions."
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3842, 22 April 1881, Page 2
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110Untitled Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3842, 22 April 1881, Page 2
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