HOW TO GET A BLACK EYE.
Header! hast ever asked a man "whence his black eye?" We hare many times ■ince we sprouted. Mayhap we've had Jem. Perhaps it matters not. We append some of the answers wo received :— " Running after a cat and tripped over the clothesline with my neck." . " Grandfather left it to me in his will. 11 Got up in the middle of the night and went down stairs after a drink." ••Told a man he lied." " Tread on the teeth of a hoe."
11 Was splitting wood." «' Cork flew out of a champagne bottle.'' 11 Baby hit mo with a rattle-box." " Tried to kill a mosquito on my nose," 11 Did not know it was loaded." "Told the bartender to hang it up." "Tried to get on a car after it was two blocks up,street." " Ban a knot-hole in it." •• Was looking through the keyhole." " Some boys playing shinty in the street and asked me to be umpire. " Went to kick a dog and my boot came •ff." " Fired a bootjack at a cat and lost my grip on it." tt _ "Nonneryer dambizness, —Is, Y. Despatch.
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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4707, 7 February 1884, Page 3
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190HOW TO GET A BLACK EYE. Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4707, 7 February 1884, Page 3
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