PLUCK.
A native-bom Wolverine (says tlic " Detroit Free Press") can't be crushed otit by anything short of death. Yesterday aat old man seventy years of age called trpoa the Chief of Police, and abruptly said: " My wife has run away." " Has, ch f 44 And taken all my money." " Well, that's had." " And nearly ail the household goods." "Whew!" " And she took the children with her." "Well, well." " And ahe ran me Into debt 200 dollars before she left." "She did." I shan't have a place to lay my after to-day," continued the old man. V "Well, what shall we do about it I" tasked the chief. " I know what Tm going to do," replied "the old man in a determined voice; '' I'll marry again in leas than a week, and before spring 111 have a hundred dollars in the bank I" - i-
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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 11, 4 May 1876, Page 4
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