A cure for toothache. — Boy : " What are you crying for, Sally V Girl : " Cos I got the toothache." Boy : You go round to my grandmother, she'ull show yer what to do ; she knows how to take all her's out and put'em back whenever she wants." A schoolmistress, while taking down the names and ages of the pnpils and the names of their parents, at the beginning of the term, asked one little fellow, " What's your father's name ?" " Oh, you needn't take down his name, he's too old to go to school to a woman," was the reply. When it takes three hours for the youngster to get home from school, and Kis faca is clean and back hair wet with brine, he is pretty sure of winning the belt oh the last lap he oovers.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 899, 19 September 1879, Page 2
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135Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 899, 19 September 1879, Page 2
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