I want to be excused," said the wor-ried-looking juryman, addressing the Judge. "1 owe a man £a that I borrowed, and, as he is leaving EngM to-day for some years, I want to catch him before he gets to the boat and pay him." lou are excused," returned Bis lordship, in icy tones, "I don't want anybody on the jury who can lie like that."
"You have long rambles in the country the impudent girl. "Yes, indeed," responded the young man in the green hat with the purple band and buckled shoes. "When I go in tho conntry all nature seems to smile!" "Gracious! I don't blame her. It is a wonder sho don't laugh outright." •
At the annual prize day the head boy rose to give his recitations. "Friends, Romans, countrymen," he vociferated; "lend me your ears.'' "There," comment. Ed tho mother of a defeated pupil, snoerfegly, "that's Mrs. Jones's boy. He wouldn't be his mother's son if he didn't yant to borrow, something."
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2802, 21 June 1916, Page 5
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