Bemonstrance.—The reply of a farmer to a tax-collector whose receipt he had lost, and who asked for payment a second time, was somewhat forcible : "Would you believe it, when I told him I had paid it once, and would not pay it again, the scoundrel began to abuse me?" "What did you do?" asked his friend. " Why, I remonstrated with him." "And to what effect?" "Well, I don't exactly know," was the reply, " but—the poker was bent!"
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Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 599, 28 December 1869, Page 2
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77Untitled Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 599, 28 December 1869, Page 2
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