School teacher (trying to explain ■what a brother-in-law " is) : •• Now look here, my boy, you have a sister?" Tommy: " Ah, sir, it's no good—she has three young men already. You wouldn't be in it." A spring poet was found dead in his room last week. The effort to make "early crocus" rhyme with "only mock us " proved too mtieh for him. Do you have damp sheets ?" said the fussy old man at the hotel securing a room. "No," said the clerk, who wanted to be obliging, " but we can sprinkle 'em for you if you like them that way."
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Hastings Standard, Issue 34, 5 June 1896, Page 4
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99Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 Hastings Standard, Issue 34, 5 June 1896, Page 4
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