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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1048, 10 February 1911, Page 8

. Nine persons guessed the exact weight of a dead bullock at (.ho Guildford Christ mas weight-guessing competition, and ill other competitors wero within half a pound. ' "And how long were you in your last placo?" asked Mrs. Croxley, as tho most promising and at tho samo tiino the plainest of tho applicants for tho vacant situation appeared before her. "Well, mum," replied the girl, "if I tell tho truth I was no sooner in than I was out again." "How extraordinary! Can you account for it?" "No, mum unless it is that I'm good-looking—not that I says I am, but the lady says.to me, 'Your master has ft liking for pretty faces, and is a good judgo of beauty.'" "I shouldn't think that wns the reason. Como. now, tell me. Did nothing olso transpire?" "Not nuothnr thing. I just looked at her and said that from what I could see her husband had made at least one mistake.. When I came to my scuses I was lying.at the foot of the steps with my bos on top c-1 me"