A lock of a man's hair m a lady's finger before marriage, indicates that a sighing lover is thinking of her ; but a lock of man's hair m a lady's fingers after marriage, is as surely indicative of a yelling chap, as the yell of agony when the owner says, ••Jerusalem, Maria, let go ! O-o-uch ! Golly, don't pull so !" Why did he Live t— A girl struck her croquet partner on the head with a mallet ; brain fever set m and the young man nearly died. The girl was kept under arrest until his recovery, and when he got well she married him ; now he's sorry he didn't die. A Wisconsin girl, wishing to prefent her lover going to California, stole all bis shirts from the line on which they were hanging out to dry. He couldn't do a better thing than to bring that girl along. She will never let him starve.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 870, 22 August 1879, Page 2
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