Tongue cannot tell the words or express the astonishment of the crippled soldier in Connecticut who awoke to find' his wife Vas using his wooden leg to pound the beef-steak for breakfast. A piece of metal was lately picked up in Cuba-Street, Wellington which was thickly studded with gold. " Five or six years of married life," remarks a veteran, " will often reduce a. naturally irascible man to *uch a condition of angelic humanity that itwouldn't be safe to trust him with a pair of wings."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 836, 16 July 1879, Page 2
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85Untitled Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 836, 16 July 1879, Page 2
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