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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 847, 29 July 1879, Page 2

I Before Marriage. — "Oh, my darling, your voice is as musical to me as a vesper bell whose tones fall softly on the perfumed evening air !" Speak again, and say those words, my beloved, for I could listen to your voice until the stars are extinguished m everlasting night I" After marriage — "I've had just enough of your clapper, old woman, and if you don't dry up I'll leave the house !" Jones (who m a moment of weakness has asked a lady to dance the polka with him a somewhat mediaeval style of dance, which, however, he fancies he recollects something about), airily : " Ah, do you er' generally begin with the er'hops er' or the slide ?" [They sit it out]. An indifferent actor was playinw m Othello. When he came to the passage, "Oh, that men should put an enemy m their mouths to steal away their brains !" a stentorian voice roared from the gallery, "All right, old man, drink away ; you're sate." To dance well, a man should know as little as possible of everything else. He can balance partners better if his hair is parted m the middle.