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A married couple, travelling through the .woods in haste,met with a meloncholy accident, which is recorded in the following felicitous style by a Yankee Poet:— ' : > “ And while retreating through the woods, And through the tangled fern, Ho tore hia. mus’n’t-mention-ems, And had to put on her’n, ' ! One for ‘ his Riviranoe, , ** Patrick ” aaid the priest, “ the widow Mo| loney tells me that you have stolen one of her finest pigs. Is that so ?”— *’ Yes, yet honor.”—* “ What nave you done , with it ?”—“ Killed it and ate it, your honor.”-r-“ Oh, Patrick, - when yon are brought face to face with the widow and her pig on the judgment-day, what account will you be able to give of yourself when the widow; accuses you of the theft?”—“Did you say the pig would be there, yer rivirance “To be sure I did;’’—Well, then, yer; rivirance, PH say, * Mrs Moloney, there’s your pig.* ”
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Patea Mail, Volume XII, Issue 14, 19 May 1886, Page 2
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149FUN. Patea Mail, Volume XII, Issue 14, 19 May 1886, Page 2
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