Reversing fche Usual Phrase. — Tha stranger entered and laid his card on Mr Cawker's desfc. The pasteboard boro tba inscription,' Mr John Smith.' 'The nama is familiar,' said Mr John Cawker, as ho looked up ; ' but I can't remember your face.1 A ganfcloman in wanb of a house for fche summer month?, in a lifcfcle town on the west coast of Ireland, found a commodious residence close to the beach. On consulting the houeo-agenb'fl board, ho read. ' House to bo let, apply opposite.' ' Opposite,'cried he, 'why tho bouse facaa I the een.'" On making inquiry he found that the houss belonged to a New Yorker, who was open to receive olier3.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 136, 12 June 1897, Page 1 (Supplement)
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111Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 136, 12 June 1897, Page 1 (Supplement)
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