" You lovo my daughter?" said the old man. " Love her !" ho exclaimed, passionately ; " why, sir, I would die for tier. For ouo soft glance from those 3weet eyes I would hurl myself from yonder cliff and perish, a bleeding-, bruised mass, upon the rooks two hundred feet below." The old man shook his head. " I'm something of a liar myself," he said, " and one is enough for a small family like mine." "My dear," said Mrs. Linton to her husband, " why do they so often put 'appraiser' after an auctioneer's name?' "Because, madam, an auctioneer is always a praiserof the goods he sells." Minister : " So you go to school, do you, Bobby;" Bobby: "Yes, sir." Minister: " Lot me hear you spell kitten." Bobby: " I'm getting too biff a boy to spell kitten. Try mo on cut."
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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2492, 30 June 1888, Page 1 (Supplement)
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136Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2492, 30 June 1888, Page 1 (Supplement)
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