Practical joking is not always unattended with danger to the perpetrator as is evident from an event which occurred at Suze Sarthe, France. A man named Verle wrapped himself m a white sheet to frighten some girls, and so far succeeded that they all rah away screaming except one, who aimed a revolver at the pretended ghost and fired six shots one having passed through his heart. When do the teeth upsurp the tongue's prerogative I—When1 — When they are chattering. "Is that cheese rioh ." asked ßloggs of his grocer. "Yes," was the candid reply, there's millions m it."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 926, 16 October 1879, Page 2
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