McLaughlin had just proposed to a widow he had met recently. “But I have nine children,” she informed him. “You deceived me,” he stormed. “They’re all working,” she continued. “Dearest!” A jeweller’s assistant, an absentminded fellow, was being married. He was presenting the bride with the ring, when he hesitated. “With this ring,” prompted the minister. “With this ring,” said the bridegrtTom, “we give a writt.en guarantee, reminding the customer that the price will be refunded if it is not as represented.” Little Joan had been punished by her father. “Oh, mummy,” she sobbed, “was daddy the only man you could get?”
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 53, Issue 3842, 4 December 1936, Page 8
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