A fellow, having a spite at a "sausagemaker^ rushed into his shop, when crowd-, ed with customers, threw a large dead oat upon the counter, and said: " That makes nineteen ! We'll settle when you're not so busy !" and made his exit. He was, of course, followed by the sausage amateurs, empty handed. » • ■ '' |Well, Annie, how; do you get along with that stupid-fool of a loverof yours ? Did you suceed in getting rid of him?" "Oh: yes •».■! got rid of him very easily. I married him, and have no lover now." This process, however," was hardly as clever as that of the Irish prisoner accused of stealing a shirt from a hedge. "Here are three people who saw you take it,'said the-magistrate. ."Bad luck to them! " exclaimed Paudheen ;" I can bring six henester people who'll awear they didn't see me take it ?"
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Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1708, 24 June 1874, Page 2
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