" I never can enjoy poetry when I'm cooking," said an old; lady who dropped in on u's recently..,. " But when I'step out to feed the hogs.arid hist myself on the fence, and throw my soul into a few lines of 'Cap'n Jenks,' it does seem as if this airth was made' to live on after all."
'•Dontyou think you have a good mama to spread such large slices of bread and jam for you!" said an old lady to a little boy, who was enjoying his tea. "Yes," was the reply," but she wosld be still better if she'd let me spread on the jam myself. • . . Brute: u 'sell,-Ethel, how did,you get on?" Angel (under treatment for her voioe): 'fl didn't like it:at ajl, and I don't see why the dootor finds it neces sary to run an instrument down my throat ao far that it saema as if he would touch my heart." Brute: "Oh, he was probably trying to find the end of year tongue, my dear I"
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1789, 16 September 1884, Page 2
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170Page 2 Advertisements Column 5 Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1789, 16 September 1884, Page 2
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