While a Scotch minister was" conducting religious services in an asylum for tho insane one of the inmates cried out wildly: "I say, have wo got to listen to this?" The minister, surprised and confused, turned to the keeper, and asked: "Shall I stop speaking?" Tho keeper replied: "No, no; gang along, gang along; that will not happen again. That man only has ono lucid moment every seven years." All on ono wet, cold winter's day Three home-bound children, tired of play, With noses pressed to window-glass, Watched all the rain-soaked people pass. And ono among them they observed, Who passed aud soemed unnerved— It luudo them sad, for thoy folt sure He needed. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. —Advt.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2942, 30 November 1916, Page 9
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119Page 9 Advertisements Column 4 Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2942, 30 November 1916, Page 9
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