TRIFLES.
"I think, my dear," said Mra Higgings, " that I will esoorfc Clara to the ball this evening. Everybody will say, 'How like she is to her mother at her age.' "— '-" Yes," replied her husband, " but it is barely possible that they may say, ' See how she will look when she is of her mother's age.' "
A family in Cleveland, North Carolina, is cheered by the presence of tweaty-seven daughters. Old Lady—" Ah, you bad boy, draggin' your little brother along like that. S'posin' you was to kill him !" Bad Boy—" Don't care. Got another indoors."
"Can you support me, darling?" is the proaaic title of a new song. Shyly he bent o'er the dainty head And " Won't you j won't you P He softly said,' 1 ' Begging from the saucy miss' Just for the loan of one sweet kiss. The maiden tossed her pretty head, And " No I won't, you.'.' She saucily said. " How foolish he is," thought the little miss, "He should not aak.for, but stealj the, kiss.". .
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Otago Witness, Issue 1456, 11 October 1879, Page 23
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170TRIFLES. Otago Witness, Issue 1456, 11 October 1879, Page 23
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