"With rings on her toes" (so runs the old nursery rhyme) " and a blow on the nose, he knocked the old gal into the gutter;" and when a bystander perched the poor creature up against a lamp-post, tho unfeeling wretch remarked, in a " mezzio tinto" voice, " What a splendid specimen of ' gutta-percha !' " The man who supplied the blow on the aose was marched oif to be intrpduced to Mr Macdonald ; but the rings had «ieri ol)t^iied from the splendid assortment in that lino ifely received by. Mr Singleton, the well-known weller, at the corner of Hobson and Victoria streets, ancrare now,pn,view at his shop. , . . .
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Observer, Volume 3, Issue 70, 14 January 1882, Page 282
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104Page 282 Advertisements Column 1 Observer, Volume 3, Issue 70, 14 January 1882, Page 282
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