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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 103, 17 September 1901, Page 3

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One of the carious matrimonial customs of tha Matabclc trill -a is that when children aro burn to a couple, the father mutt b.iy them off his father-in-law, or, if ho fails to do so, the children become the property, so to spc-ik of the mother's fami y. TEMPTATION. A gentiemin was walking down the street when he saw a boy place a largo apple on some s'eps and then retire some distance away. The gentleman went up to him and said : «• My boy, do you know that you are doing vary wrong to placing that apple on those steps? Some poor boy might be tempted \o steal ft." «• That's what I want him to do," said

Tommy. • " «' Why?'' asked the gentleman. " Because," said Tommy, *' I've hollowed the inside out and fiilled it with mustard." TSE SAME WILLIAMS. "Now, sir," began the attdrney foe tbe defence, knitting his brows, and preparing to annihilate thi Witness whom he was about to cross-examine, "you say your name is Wil'iams. Cm you prove that to be your real name ? I« there anybody in the court room who can swear that you haven't assumed it for ih'e purpose of fraud and deceit ?" " I think you oan identify me yourself," answered the witness. "I ? Where did I ever see you before, my friend V' " i put that scar ©ver yodr right eye twenty five years ago, when you were stealing peaches out of niy father's orchard. I'm the same Williams."