War einst ein Glockengieszer Zu Breslau in der Sladt.
Smoothing the Rough Places.
Black : " How do you get along at your new boarding house ?"
White: "Very well indeed. I am well lodged, well fed, and everything is made comfortable for me." Black : "I am surprised."
White: "Why so?"
Black : ." Because I boarded there myself and I was half starved, I can't understand why they treat you differently."
White : " I'll tell you. You remember the landlady's baby ?"
Black : " That squint-eyed little brat ? I do. I can hear him yelling now."
White : " That baby is not handsome, I admit. It cries considerably, I allow, but I can't make it any handsomer nor improve its temper, therefore I make the best of it. I call it a pretty little darling, a sweet little thing. I make excuses for the noise it makes by saying all children ar« so. The other boarders laugh at me, but the laugh is on my side when they are sawing away at tough round steak and I am luxuriating on tender loin. It doesn't take much effort to smooth over the rough places of life." — Boston Courier.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1825, 12 November 1886, Page 35
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189War einstein Glockengieszer Zu Breslau in der Sladt. Otago Witness, Issue 1825, 12 November 1886, Page 35
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