A raw-looking farm servant, with "country" writ Targe on his countenance, was walking along a street in Glasgow the other day, when he ohanoed to notice a eign in oaaof the shpp windows with the words " Boots blwked Inside»' on ft. Joojc stored at the notice epea-woathed for several minutes before he found tongue to ewlaimj "What in a'the world does folk want wr tho inside of their shoon blackened T I never heard the }ike o't in a' my *born No oritioism is more usual on Ifortp Britons than that they oannot see a*jok*. Lord Lytton, however, said: "No n»n,4or instance, has more practical understanding than a Soot, and no man has a keener bus* ceptibility to humor."
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Evening Star, Issue 8716, 7 January 1892, Page 2
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119Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Evening Star, Issue 8716, 7 January 1892, Page 2
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