Savory Morsels
11 What would you do if I should die P" asked a wife of her husband, as she laid her fair, white arms around his neck. " Well, really, my love, I hadn't thought of it," he answered abstractedy, " bat I presume I'd bury you." Florida has a town named Hurrah. A little way off is another called Kissime. It takes a Michigan man to get it off on the deck of a river steamer and yell to the first pretty girl he meets : " Hurrah, are you going to Kissime too." A convention of doctors and undertakers was recently held at Erie on the same day. It is very seldom that they show their connection as openly as this.
School near Paisley; geography class up for examination. Teacher: "Tell me where Glasgow lies." Promising pupil: " Glasca lies in thinkin' she's the sacoint city o'the empire." Teacher: "No, no! What is the situation of Glasgow?" Another promising pupil: "There's nae situation in Glesoa the noo, or there wouldna he sa mony folks out o* wark." Teacher, excitedly: •' Nonsense boy! What ritrer is it on ?' Promising pupil: "On the Clyde generally; bat aboot the new year it's a gude deal on the Spree." Teacher, throwing down book : "Go to your seats, and stand there till you hare learned the lesson."
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Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5107, 30 May 1885, Page 2
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