Mabel : Wh^t an intenstiog talker Mr. Gu»htr is He always holde ono when he sj^eaks. Mrs. GusLer : Does he ? That sccouute for the hair I found on bis shoulder last sight. •♦••*• "Why thin tender leave-taking from jour wife — in she setting out on a journey ?" " Oh, bo. Stie has gone to put on her things, and it'll be B«me time before I nee her again." ■*••$• Fragment overheard on the Railway. — lai Mas : md so did my wife. 2ud Man : What ! Are you married, too P Ist Man : Yes 1 2nd Man . Pour (ieril. ■*♦ »• Maria," said Mr. Jones, who has been trying his baad al poetry. " I have wriiten a sounet.'' •' Hare you d">ar ?" B»id Maria, sweetly. " Why do you call it a sounpt ? ' *' Oi'," aiswerel Junes, loliily, "because it will rlijme ho [licfly with boo art !" Marii t!i(U,ht. she ditecled a latent sarcasm. " You might ua»e said hat, Bhe Bjuruiuted dttnuiely. *• Wby bat ?" askod .lone.-!, with interest. " It would rhyme so nicely with flat," pune< Ma. Joaea.
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Bruce Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3097, 8 September 1899, Page 6
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167Page 6 Advertisements Column 1 Bruce Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3097, 8 September 1899, Page 6
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