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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 688, 6 May 1879, Page 2

; •' ■ ' '"' l •.'''" : i-< ■„■ A Sunday-school pupil of tender age being asked how he liked the gentleman, who had addressed the school, replied l, 1 "He was a,fnnny man. He told about the handwriting on thel?all, and saM r st/( was ♦Minnie,. Minnie^ tickle the pkf- fi son.'" —Schoolmaster; Useful Ijworbiaiion.— A Scotch, duchess was present at a charity school questioning. The teaoher asked, <«what is the wife of a king called 1" " A queen was the . i answer. "Of , <ab emperor V J —««An ' empress." » The w}fe of a duke, V'-^(«A drake." I • • ■ • vi . ... -. >, .■n FT 7 / ; r j, ,i M; "Glorious weather for the crops," observes the delighted granger. ««Plays the very deuce with the theatrical busin&te" moatis'the manager, as he goes through the cash box to nnd a 'iWort'bitfor luhch^ no doubt,!!, observes the Bohemain philosopher, "but just a little rough fln a man v with' ri6 'timbrella, only one suit of clothes, a hole m his shoes, tandcndl credit at his shoemaker's," It's hard to please all,