AN UNGRACIOUS SPEECH.
The Scot had married for the second time. His new mate was sentimental and a Little morbid. She could not resist asking her husband now and then if he loved her better than he had loved her predecessor She would say “Do I more than fill Jean’s place in your heart, Jock?” “Are you shure ye're no regrettin’ Jean, laddie ?” “Jock, do you love me better nor her ?” The man bore several of these examinations, patiently. Then he ended them once for aU with a gruff : “Tak’ ma word for it, Betty, if Jean was livin’ ye wadna be her©.”
There is a pine tree in California which puzzles the world. It produces at regular intervals the usual cones containing seeds but, strange to say, the cones are so hard that they cannot release their seeds.
Everything is possible if you haw •m mtkb \9 Wtert: in you,
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Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 8, 25 September 1906, Page 8
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151AN UNGRACIOUS SPEECH. Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 8, 25 September 1906, Page 8
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