—lt is worth recalling just now that there is etiquette to be observed even in being warm. In an old volume for the instruction of youth a young lady declares herself to be “ all of amuck of sweat,” and is at once severely rebuked by her governess with ‘ Hush, Miss! Horses sweat, men perspire, but ladies only glow.” Charles Smith, a jovial negro, was arraigned before Judge Fawcett in the County Court, Brooklyn, on a minor charge. ’ Smith,” asked the court, “did you ever commit a crime before?” The negro pondered for a moment. 61 Well, yo 1 Honan, ho answered, slowly, “_Ah can’t ’zactly say, but Ah done got married one time.”
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Otago Witness, Issue 3101, 20 August 1913, Page 74
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