NOT TO BE DROWNED.
"Here's a temperance lecture in a nutshell," said the good woman, and she read aloud: "While under the influence of liquor John Williams fell into the river and was drowned."
"My dear woman," replied her unregenerate husband, "that merely shows the evil effect of too " much water after one's whisky.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIII, Issue 111, 12 May 1902, Page 8
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