Miscellaneous.
Douglas Jerrold said to a very thin man, “ Sir, you are like a pin, but without the head or the point.” A visionary poet in an English magazine talks of a “ little mouth too sweet to kiss.” Guess not. A few years ago the ladies wore a kind of hood called “ kiss-me-if-you-dare.” The present style of bonnet might be called, with equal propriety, “ kiss-me-if-you-want-to.” The young ladies of Swamptown (U. S.) have passed the following resolution : “ Resolved, that if we, the young ladies of Swamptown, don’t get married this year, somebody will be to blame.” A Yankee farmer, whose pigs were so lean that it took two of them to make a shadow, has been beaten by another who has several so thin that they used to crawl through the cracks in their pen. He finally stopped that fun by tying knots on their tails.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XIII, Issue 1022, 4 May 1869, Page 2
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146Miscellaneous. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XIII, Issue 1022, 4 May 1869, Page 2
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