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Wairarapa Standard, Volume II, Issue 56, 25 January 1868, Page 3

An American medical gentleman, in~an artical in the “ Boston Medical and Surgical Journal.” on “ Foreign Bodies in the Ear,” says that in his experience he has taken from the ear heans, cotton, slate pencils, peas, maggots, crockroaches, beads, glass, crockery, shells, paper, pins, ivory, teeth of combs, stones and seeds. An enterprising American publisher is about to bring out a volume of nursery literature, in which the stories and rhymes of the “exploded I ould country ” will be adapted to the tastes and | understandings of young America. T.o illustrate this we. shall venture on r verson in prose Of Ifurapty Damply;—“ Humpty Dumpty sot hisselfon a tall rail. Hulnpty Dumpty dropt off his perch—ker squash., And all the equipages and all the liveried menials of an effete monarchist system was just a one-hoss afikir as regarded the isottih’ of that unforl’net cuss on that eVerlastih’ rail agin! Moral:—The skreekih bird of freedom what roosts on the zenjth, with his head tied up in the star-span-gled banner, rather kalklates that monarchy ' is played ont~some!”