Too Large For Him.
Soma joker put a small turtle, about the bLsc of a silver dollar, in room 12 at the Ocean Hotel, Durango, and the miner who was assigned that room, upon retiring, caiight sight of it, w hereupon he began to resume his clothing, with the remark: "I expected to have a lively night of it here, but if they're as big as that I don't propose to get in with 'em," — Denver Tribune.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1845, 3 May 1884, Page 6 (Supplement)
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77Too Large For Him. Waikato Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1845, 3 May 1884, Page 6 (Supplement)
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