'I thought,' said the man who had been burned out, 'that you told me this was a iireproof safe.' 'So it is,' replied the travelling salesman. 'If anybody doubts that you have had a fire, you can point to that safe and prove it immediately.'
He: Darling, will ,you. miss me when I am far away.ssjn a foreign land?— She: Yes, dear, but you will write to me often, won't you? What a chance it will be for me to increase my collection of foreigft stamps.- - . • ■■: . „ \i Young'; Bride: I didn't accept Tom the first time he proposed.—Miss Ryval (slightly; envious): I know you didn't.— Young Bride: How dp you i know?—Miss Ryval: You weren't there.
'You see, my dear,' said Mr Younghusband to 'his wife, triumphantly, at three o'clock the other morning:,, 'the moment I begin to sing to baby she is quite quiet.'— 'Yes.' said his wife, 'she is easily frightened, poor little thing.'
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Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 101, 30 April 1898, Page 4 (Supplement)
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