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A mouse ranging about a brewery, happening" to fall into one of the vats of beer, was in immediate danger of drowning, andappealed to a oat to help him out. The cat replied, "It is a foolish request, for as soon as I get you out I shall eat you." The mouse piteously replied that that fate would be better than to be drowned in beer. The cat lifted him out, but the fumes of the beer caused puss to sneeze; the mouse took to his hole. The cat called upon the mouse to come out — M You rascal, did you not promise that I shonld eat you."— "Ah!" replied the mouse, but you knov that I was in liquor at the time."
The Sultan bas 4000 servants ; and yet we daresay, when the furnace fire won't work, the Sultana tells him it is the hired girl's nigbt out, and he has to go shinning aronnd in the cellar to warm up the harem again. There is something passing strange about human nature. If a man had to support his family by playing billiards at 10s. a day, he'd complain he had to work awful hard for a living.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3526, 30 August 1880, Page 3
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200UNKNOWN. Taranaki Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3526, 30 August 1880, Page 3
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