" Do you play by the ear ?" inquired a pupil of a dancing-school fiddler. —" No, my dear, I play by the night." May not a bird who sleeps upon the wing be said to occupy a feather bed? A quarrel is, nine times out of ten, merely the fermentation of the misunderstanding. Some one said to Talleyrand that the Abbe Sieyes was a very profound mau. "Profound! was the reply, "yes, he is a perfect cavity." When a man and woman are made one by a clergyman, the question is, which is the one. Sometimes there is a long struggle between them before this matter is finally settled.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 62, 16 May 1866, Page 3
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