'Ossiness. — Seene — The outside of an omnibus. — Party (who doesn't know much about 'osses) : And what do you call the horse on the left-hand side, driveri He looks a good sort. Driver : Oh. that's the off ~'un. Party :Is it indeed? Dear me! Lost both his parents, I s'poae? -(but what on earth were they all laughsng at.?
A farmer's wife m speaking of the smartness aptness, and intelligence of her son, a lad six years old, to a lady acquaintance, aaid — " He can read fluently m any part of the Bible, repeat the whole catchigm, and weed onions, as well ns his father." " Yes, mother," added the young hopeful, "and yesterday I licked Ned Rawson, threw the cat into the well, and stole old Hicken's gimlet."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 844, 25 July 1879, Page 2
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