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"My brain is on fire!" tragically .«..' claimed Johnson as he threw fiimself down upon the sofa and held his head. "Why don't you blow it put;?" absentmindedly asked his brother, cJeeply.absorbed in the evening newspaper.;.^ And then he dodged a flying bpqk. THE RETORT COURTEOUS." ■_.- j'. " t i '.- ■ f ',: An army officer seated, d'hote of an hotel, looking "significantly at a naval officer said:. ~ "If I had a son who waV an, idiot, I •would make him a sailor." 4 ;'-. , "Evidently your father, •was. not at that opinion," quietly responded the naval officer. , ,' ~ *,; i:, .■;. ,;. AN ANSWER. Visitor: "Are you the Wild Mgflf The Freak: "Yes." :. , .... „... % Visitor: "H'm! what makes you wild! The Freak: "The silly are being constantly apked" fle." '~ * ■..■?%■
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 198, 19 August 1904, Page 2
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