VARIETIES.
A little girl, when asked by her mother about suspicious bites in the sides of a dozen choice apples, answered “ Perhaps, ma, they may have been frost bitten, it was so cold last night.” A lady gave a burglar a very severe flogging with a dusting brush the other night. She said she wouldn’t have done it, if she hadn’t been under the impression that it was her husband just coming home. t
“ Why are you whipping that boy asked a policeman. “ He’s my son.’ “ What has he done to deserve such punishment?” ‘‘He aint done nuthin’ yet, but ns I’m going away from home to-day, to be gone some time, and knowing that he’ll need it before I get back, I thought I’d better give it to him now.”
A man with a discolored eye, upo n being asked what had occasioned the marks, replied in the following pregnant sentences —“ Bruce had recourse to the sword, Tell to a bow and arrow, but when a woman strikes for liberty she uses anything she can lay her hands on. Flat-irons are the handiest thing in our house.”
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 3480, 31 May 1884, Page 3
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188VARIETIES. South Canterbury Times, Issue 3480, 31 May 1884, Page 3
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