Familiar Phrase Explained.—Robin son: "Well, old chap, how did you sleep last night?" Smith (who had dined out): " 'Like a top.' As soon as my head touched the pillow, it went round and round!"
He stared at her with bulging eyes. She had a boxing-glove on her left hand and a Hammer in her right. "M-my dear," he stammered, 'wh.what are you going to do?" "Idiot," she snapped, "I'm going to drive tacks!" THEN THEY MADE IT UP. A young man wrote to his best girl, after one of those ordinary quarrels, saying: "I want you to return everything that I have given you." She replied by telling him to call at a certain hour and she would carefully comply with his request —beginning with the kisses. A man can never get ahead of a woman, except in the matter of age. If they were born the same day the male would gain twenty years on the female in a lifetime. UNJUST DISCKIMINATIO'N. Mulroon: Shure, Casey, an' phwat hoy Oi done that yez won't fight wid me?
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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 213, 8 September 1899, Page 8
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