“Jous'v, I have discovered that you have taken more sugar than I gave you.’ “ Yes, graudmama ; I’ve been making be lievethat there was another little boy spending the day with me.” Employer: “ James' here is a letter for you from the Dead Letter Office.” James, in agony : “Then it’s from my son. He’s bin sick for weeks, and I’ve bin expectin’ this every day.” A POOU man married an esquire’s daughter. As the rich man would not be reconciled, or give him any portion, he christened all his children by his father-in-law’s surname, that they may convoy, as beggars, the family name to posterity.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2373, 24 September 1887, Page 2
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104Untitled Waikato Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 2373, 24 September 1887, Page 2
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