OUTRAGEOUS!.
Vicar rand pquire were walking home together after- morning church the other Sunday. Vicar, very peeved burst out:' <Did you hear -. Robinson snoring m church this morning?" - "Yes"," I did," said the "squire. Disgraceful! ' He, woke me up!" Debits and Credits.— ln a Lancashire town there resides" a man -.who ds^ about as careful of the pence as a man can well be. He was considered quite the most eligible bachelor of the ' neighbourhood, notwithstanding his painful exactness m matters financial. He married a-Yvidow _ worth £15,000, and. shortly before tha'ceremony an old friend met him. " - -"Allow me^ he. said, ."to congratulate you. ~ Youry >wedding y is worth £15,000 to you." "Oo," he replied, "not quite so much." "Indeed! I thought there was every penny of £15,000 m it." "Oh, no," said the careful bridegroom,/'I had to pay £2 12s^6d for the marriage license!" —
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Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume XXVIII, Issue 1396, 25 October 1932, Page 3
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144OUTRAGEOUS!. Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume XXVIII, Issue 1396, 25 October 1932, Page 3
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