A GOOD SUBSTITUTE.
An affected young lady stood up tq sing at a small gathering, and,after making ceveral vain attempts to start, sho coughed two or three times, tried again, and failed.
" Dear me ! " she cried, I cannot get the pitch."
" Never mind," said an old gentle^ man in the room, " try tar ! "
Dauvit A owned a small meat, with a well at the back in a town of rife. Some of the neighbours \\h<i> had no well of their own used to give him a small sum foil the uso of his. One neighbour, howover, who used Dauvit's well regularly, never nSnded about, giving any 4 thing for the privilege. Mr. A . mot him one day and remarked as ix hint " Man Peter, you've forgotten your • acknowledgement." " Ay, Dauvit, but arn't, wo promised our) waiter i' lho Bible '.' " •' Ay^ but ye wisua promised, the pump.".
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 120, 23 May 1903, Page 1 (Supplement)
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146A GOOD SUBSTITUTE. Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 120, 23 May 1903, Page 1 (Supplement)
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