Jumbos Luggage. — One trunk. A Glaring Deficiency. — Weak gas. A gentleman who follows the profession of school-teaching gave out one morning as a reading lesson to his class that portion of "The Merchant of Venice" in which the pqund of flesh scene occurs. The reading finished, he asked the class what Shylock meant when he said, ' My deeds upon pay, head ' ' Well,' said the tallest boy", whose father was a solicitor, ' I don't know, unless it means he carried his papers in his hat/
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Southland Times, Issue 4412, 30 August 1882, Page 2
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84Untitled Southland Times, Issue 4412, 30 August 1882, Page 2
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