THE ADVANTAGE OF TAKING A NEWSPAPER.
I knew two friends so much alike, As e'er you saw two stumps ; And no phrenologist could line! A difference in thoir bumps. Orii> took hj paper, and his life AVas happier than a king's*; His children all could read and write, And talk of men and things. The other took no pnper, and While strolling through a wood, A tree fell down upon his crown. And killed him—as it should ! Had he been reading of the news At home. like neighbour Jim, I'll bet a cent this accident
Had not befallen him ! —*■ American Paper."
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Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Issue 7, 17 November 1877, Page 3
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101THE ADVANTAGE OF TAKING A NEWSPAPER. Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Issue 7, 17 November 1877, Page 3
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