" Miss Gamboge," says Blizen to that interesting but rapidly advancing lady of forty-four, " I declare you are looking I quite charming—a regular twenty-one , bloom and spirits. You can't be a day over that figure, if lam a judge." Miss Gamboge lets off a shower of smiles and says: "Now Mr Blizen, you do say s<jch insinuating things—and then you guess ages so closely." On a recent trip of one of the Illinois river packets—a light draught one, ai there were only two feet deep of water in the channel—the passengers were startled by the cry of " Man overboard !" - The steamer was stopped, and preparations were made to save him, when he was, was heard exolaiming, "Go ahead with your darned old steamboat! I'll walk behind yon."
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4436, 24 March 1883, Page 2
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