Setting up the. girls. — Recently the local paper at Grass Valley said — " The prettiest girl in Grass Valley doesn't carry herself straight enough when promenading." For a week after all the Grass Valley girls stalked about like so. many beanpoles, and every girl said, " That horrid paper ! Ma, don't I walk straight ?" A negro being caught stealing from a hen-roost, excused himself by saying, "Dathe only came.dar to see if de chickens sleep with their eyes open." A coquette is a rose from which every love plucks a leaf. The thorns are reserved for her husband — if she should happen to get one.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 916, 8 October 1879, Page 2
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