KIBBLINGS.
■ ■. ♦ . A, T ■ I tie nonsense now and the It leliihed by the; wisest men. A beggar arcoated a gentleman, and whintd. I'm paralysed in boh my 'andp, an' can't work, fer I can't grasp aaythink with 'em. Could yer spare me a trifle, maiiter? I'm deaf, replied the gentleman. You'd better write down what you bays to say. Here's n pencil and a piece of paper. Deaf is 'c? thought the beggar. Then 'c didn't 'ear about the paralysis. So he wrote dowu : I've got a wife an' six obildren starvinz at 'ome, mister. I've bin out o1o 1 work fer six months, an' ham in a, drefful stute o' deatertushun. He handel the paper to the gentleman, who read it, and said : I thought you said you were paralysed in both hands and couldn't gra<=p anything, and yet you can writo In your abeonco have you thought of me? asked she, coyly. Yer, replied he, provokingly, onco. Only oncb ? inquired -she, rising as if to dopcrr. Only once, repeated ho holding out his arms ; only once— all the time ! And she, came right bnok,
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 9826, 12 October 1893, Page 3
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