MISCELLANEOUS.
" Do you know the family next door ?" enquired the bill collector of a small boy on the door-step. "Nooh." "Isn't the name Gretn?" "I dunno, sir. All .1 know is that they've got a boy bigger'n me, and that I've licked him twice and am aching to do it again.'*
Etiqutte in the Oil. Countbt.—Out in Beading, Pa., instead of patting R.S.V.P. on an invitation to dinner they inscribe on the lower left-hand corner the legend, 'Come early, and secure a clean plate.' Pennsylvania was always noted for the hospitable way in which it' took in* its neighbours. Lovers are prone to sell-depreciation. Said he, tenderly,* as they sat looking at the stars: ' I don't understand what you can see in me to love me. 1 ' That's what everybody says,' gurgled the ingenious, maiden. Then the silence became so deep 1 that you could hear the stars twinkling.
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Thames Star, Volume XIX, Issue 5815, 19 September 1887, Page 1
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149MISCELLANEOUS. Thames Star, Volume XIX, Issue 5815, 19 September 1887, Page 1
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