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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 102, 18 August 1876, Page 3

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It- was a. very woman fctuxft eame int*> I' smiutmu thy other ilay. JTot to put 1 line i- i'i link im It, a fit; we am rs ' ''•uiiitm' will lie was glad to know it, d inquired after Mr. Briggs. " Vtm Swnn to keep thy run <>c yonr eminent she said withsome asperity; you know, he died last Friday." The stammered out tluvts he had indeed j'lWkiid if. " That's just it," said the ii'f-sirielu.jt one. *'t want an obituary rit t" liim—soinethiu.it atronit, yort know." said the sub-editor : " f j"«t, take down the points. He was Mic-spirifcod. of course ! ' t'ertaiuly,* SSlu'd the widow. " Respected. inttuen- "!< liijiii-toricd ' " " Way up," sobbed the mrt. • • f, m , tVelings, self-made. rieh I ' 'l'll, Ui\" said the mourner; " he would lv<! tr'cl ; his |.>artru v was just !«M Bin,yf V U.>iv 11ut lio ddu't wait for » lii'st day ivun f he faded- awav, faded !l ,'. ' " AIL riii'ht, madam, we wilt get tip i'tice thai, will made alt the other bevod taiuilii's iu your part of tlie town ) w 'l with trivy." 'Mhi the front pa^e, "hI, s!u< si-\u-d, '• Ju.sf. so,, ma'am, ft ill l H < eight dollars." " Eight dolUus- for '"bituary, with sugar at thirteen cents f "Ut rutleut, madam, that you will have 1 lU'tide that wiii make Andrew John-

son and Henry Wilson turn over in their graves." " Eight dollars—ami Johnny's will be four dollars, and .Jane's pullbaek—• well, mister, I guess the »»Id man will have t«» slide through on his merits. The regular fottfr-fott send-off will about do. I guess," and depositing the coin on the desk, she sobbed herself downstairs. i&tn jSnw Lr.lUr.