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"Can you build a stack?" said the farmer to the new hired man. "Sure I can. I can build a stack the shape of an -egg. , - , ,' When the stack was nearly completed, the bottom ; shot out, and the stack came to the ground flat as a pancake. , •, . - "I thought you said vim could build a stack the shape of aiv egg? , ' said the farmer. i ' 'So I did; but I didn't say j whether it was a boiled egg or a fried one." —"Coming Nation,' 1 - t : The latest Parisian invention is the automatic doctor. The mechanism represents a man, and l> in the region of each organ is a slot' -designed to receive a 15 centimes ! piecei JThe patient suffering, say] from heart trouble, goes to the machine and drops his coin in the slot with the organ in trouble., and without delay a prescription is delivered..' This; reminds us powerfully of Labor •legislation in this country., The worker goes into the Arbitration Court,, puts ia, penny in the slot, and a palliative pill, wihich cures one disease by'causing another, on the good old allopathic principle, i....
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Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 42, 22 December 1911, Page 4
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190NOT SPECIFIED. Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 42, 22 December 1911, Page 4
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