“Do you know that I. am soon, to b& engaged to M;r Saunders?” —“Is that SO? Has he spoken to your mother?”—“No; mother has spoken to him.” Jill: “Is Gill a good judge of cigars?” Bill: “I think he must be. He had two last night and lie gave me one. He j must have kent the better one.”
—“You are a poor young man?”—“l am.” • —“Then what you want is a thrifty, economical wife.”—“Not at all. What I want is a rich, liberal wife.” “There are at least two things that a woman is ever ready to jump at,” remarked the /jjwwo. "‘What are they?” queried the imioceht l-y dander. “A mouse ' and an offer of marriage.”
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Otago Witness, Issue 2915, 26 January 1910, Page 78
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