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Grooer (to his wife): "Am saying, Jtian, whin ye gang tae the market the morn, don't buy ony mair barrels o' apples J frao Tamson." Jenn : " Whit'a the matter wi' Tamson John ? Die he no pit the big apples at the tap, an 1 tho "wee ane's at the bottom." John : " Ou, ay, but he forgets tne mark the tap, an' I've opened three o' his barrels nt the bottom tae shot? the customers." She : " Now, how old would you take ne to be? No flattery now." He: " About forty. That is, by striking an average. You talk as wisely as a woman of sixty, and look liko a girl of twenty." When the honeymoon waned. — Mr Paddock Field : " Romember that you took me for better or for worse" Mrs Field : " Ob, Paddy 1 1 know that I took yon for a good deal better thun you are." Ethel : "So poor Clara's danoes didn't* go down well to-tiij:ht. Well, you know j sho is getting eld, and must expect it." j Tottie : "It mast eeem very sad to you, having known her since _ho was an infant in ai-ms."
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 9291, 18 January 1892, Page 4
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