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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 4489, 30 January 1886, Page 3

A good one is told upon one of the countrymen who attended the fair. While in the town he thougnt it his duty to attend the opera. Securing a seat he was intently viewing the stage when someone at his side, thinking from the squint of his eyes that he was near-sighted, kindly handed him an opera-glass. The old fellow was profuse in thanks, and hiding the glass behind his hat, turned it up to hia lips for a moment, and then handed back with the remark that "the blamed thing is dry."— Dublin (Ga.) Gazette The Manawatu Herald says : After Mr Higgins (now in Wanganui Gaol awaiting his trial) had been run in for stabbing the two men at the Family Hotel, Otaki, he discovered he had lost hia hat. On New Year'B eve the unfortunate boy John Todd also lost his hat. A lodger in the hotel, said, " Well, I think you can have this one. It belongs to a man in g^ol." Todd replied ** I hardly like to wear it — it might bring me bad luck." But he did w«ar it, nevertheless, and it was on his head when the dray went over him. The Ittt ii now available for the next man.

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