, A vagrant ass stood in a paddock near a railway cro3sing. A few mornings ago an engine moved slowly up and stopped within a few feet of the aas, the engineer at the same time blowing one of those terrible screams, prolonged and ear-pierc-ing—-such a blast as would make the dead in the cemetery think the day of judgment wr.s at hand. Did the ass scare? Not 1 a bit of it. Did he shake the sloth from his limbs, erect hia tail, and speed away like the asses of Bassorah, or faster than the Bedouin courses ? No, he didn't. He turned one ear towards the engine, jastas a deaf man uses his tin ear trumpet, and caught every particle of the sound, and when the steam blown .-whistle ceases its notes, and all the echoes died away, the animal straightened out its neck, opened ' its mouth, and in a voice that deafened all the railway men and caused the guard ( much fright, it roared orit:—" I can't 1 I can't! I can't be beat! be beat! I can't be-be-beat!" "Man wants hut little here, below, ,buk wants that little strong." Certainly. Strong, mild, or medium cigarette tobacco to be obtained at MoLivhb'b, Brown street,— lAdtt.l
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Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4284, 23 September 1882, Page 2
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206Page 2 Advertisements Column 4 Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4284, 23 September 1882, Page 2
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