" Now, young lady, you may stand forward," said tho lawyer in a oa*o in one of the justices' courts tho other day. " Yes, sir," sho replied, with a beaming smile. " That does mo. up !" whispered a man in ono of tho benches. "I'm her husband, and she's forty-nine years old, but t.iso sugar on that lawyer's toi!<;v,e will cost me £20 for inilliiypry bui'oro tho cud of August," At an evening , sociable a mu3icial young lady played and sang a pieoe called ' Sylvan Sounds, , in which the sinaius* and notes of tho linnet and tho liirl; were imitated. " Did not that young lady's siusring remind you of the singing of birds ? You might have thought sho was really a bird." " Yes, but I never saw a bird sit down at a table, after it {tot through singing, and hide away three or four cups of tea, half a ham, and euougb cako and ioecreatn to founder a inule. You novel' saw a lurk or liuuot do that, did you ?"
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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2417, 7 January 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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169Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2417, 7 January 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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