v '"Well, iMike, have ye heard what thev are going to do with Barney Flauriigan?" "Indade 1 have," responded IVlike. "Thev're goin 2 to imprison mm for life. But I'm afraid the poor sowl won't live half that time." 1 "Can'l' mail an infernal machine here?" sternly demanded J- Fuller 'Gloom of the pale clerk in the post office. "I want to send my nephew's accordion to him." "As a matter of fact," said a lawyer for the defendant, trying to be sarcastic "vou were scared to death, and doo't know -whether it was a motor-car or something resembling a motor-car that hit you." "It resembled one ail right, the plaintiff made answer. 'T was for ciblv, struck -by the resemblance '.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 15 May 1917, Page 8
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121Page 8 Advertisements Column 1 Nelson Evening Mail, 15 May 1917, Page 8
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