TOO LITERALLY.
, "Well, yes," said Old Uncle Lazzenberry, who was intimately acquainted with most of the happenings of the vllage. "Almira Stang has broken off her engagement with Charles Henry Tootwiler. They'd be goin' together for about eight years, durin which time she had been inculcatin into him, as 3 f ou might call it, the beauties of economy; but when she discovered, just lately, that he had learnt his lesson so well that he had saved up two hundred and seventeen pairs of socks for her to darn immediately after the wedding, she 'peared to conclude that he had taken her advice a lititle too literally, and broke off the match."— "Puck."
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Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12490, 17 March 1909, Page 1
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113TOO LITERALLY. Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12490, 17 March 1909, Page 1
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