HE GOT THE TICKET.
An Irishman applied for a ticket lor the church soup kitchen, and the minister was surprised to recognise in bim a man whom he had married only a week before. " How is this ?" ho said, " How came you to marry a wife, and not be able to keep her ?" " Well, since your Reverinco wishes to know, Oi'U tell ypu, ■ You must know, surt, that she applied to get on to the soup kitchen, and hor being a single woman sorrow a bit if they would allow her, And Oi applied, and sorrow a bit if they would allow me. If I had bin a aarried man, they, said.it would have been 'another flung. Bo your Reverinco mil obsaivij
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North Otago Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 979, 25 May 1901, Page 2 (Supplement)
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122HE GOT THE TICKET. North Otago Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 979, 25 May 1901, Page 2 (Supplement)
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