Not long ago a countryman who had come to live in Bristol was made a lieutenant in ■the Volunteers. His sense of his own importance was greatly inoreased. He could Jhardly speak of anything else but his new dignity. Meeting a native of his old home one day he accosted him thus : " Well, Jim, 3 suppose you know I havo been appointed Bautenant .'" "Yes," said Jem, '« I hecrd :< . " Well, what do folks say about it?" ♦'They don't say nothin'," replied truthful Barnes, " they jest laugh.',
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Bush Advocate, Volume XI, Issue 863, 25 November 1893, Page 6
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85Page 6 Advertisements Column 1 Bush Advocate, Volume XI, Issue 863, 25 November 1893, Page 6
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