By an Old Bachelor— lt takes a good deal of grief to kill a woman just after she has got a new sealskin jacket. Oome, now, stupid," said the schoolmaster ; "you don't know how much two and five make ? Now listen. In one pocket I have two dollars, and in the other five dollars. Now how many dollars have I got 1" " Let me see them and I will tell you." School was dismissed. First ' Street Boy : " Hullo, Billy, what's the matter 1 Yer don't look well."— Second ditto: "No, l've just been a-eatin' some hoysters hoff the stall."— First Street Boy : " That didn't ought to hurt 5 er. " — Second ditto: "No. but I eat the shells as well, and I ain't felt right never sinst."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 841, 22 July 1879, Page 2
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