MIRTHFUL MORSELS.
"Iwow'/get my life insured," declared a husband in response to his wife's suggestion that he should get it insured, adding " It would be just my luck to live for ever if I should take out a policy." " Then, by all means, don't do it, dear," meekly replied the wife.
" The kind of woman that I particularly abhor," says an old bachelor, "is the .one with a spirit of disputation in her soul, who picks me up on the point of a sharp sentence as though I were a dropped stitch in her knitting work." An Aberdeen child being asked what were the three great feasts of the Jews, promptly and not unnaturally replied, " Breakfast, dinner, and supper."
" How this world is inclined to slander," said a maiden lady to a certain wholesale grocer whose good deeds were famed, "Can you believe it, sir, some of my malicious acquaintances reported that I had twins." " Madam, I make it a rule to believe only half what I hear !" replied the grocer.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3738, 20 May 1881, Page 4
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171MIRTHFUL MORSELS. Taranaki Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3738, 20 May 1881, Page 4
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