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'He understands everything we say to him,' said the proud young mother, exhibiting the baby. 'Darling, tell the p'itty lady, won't you, who smokes that big meerschaum pipe on the mantelpiece ? ' ' Mam-ma ! ' piped baby. ' Sometimes he gets his answers a little mixed,' explained the proud young mother. A very thin man having seen an advertisement in a newspaper headed, ' How to get fat,' sent the required fee, and, after waiting several days for a reply from the advertiser, received the simple information : ' Buy it at the butcher's.'
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 22, 4 June 1908, Page 38
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90ODDS AND ENDS New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 22, 4 June 1908, Page 38
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