Averting a Storm.—A few nights ago, Mr Jones, who had been out taking his glass and pipe i on going home late borrowed an umbrella, and ! when his wife's tongue was loosened he sat up in bed and suddenly spread out the parapluie. \ " What are you going to do with that thing ?" | said she. u Why, dear, I expected a very heavy ' storm to-night, and came prepared," In less than i two minutes Mrs. Jones was last asleep. Difference of Entail.—" When I lost my wife," says a French writer, " every family in the town offered me another; but when 1 lost ray horse no one offered to make him good/' | A mor(e)bid sort of fellow—An auctioneer— Comic News,
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume II, Issue 58, 18 November 1863, Page 1 (Supplement)
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