. Why are girls hearts, now-a-days, like darkies at an auction ? Because they are knocked off by dear old massa to the highest bidder. May it please the Court, I bad rather live thirteen hundred centuries on the small end of • thunderbolt, chew the ragged end of a flash of lightning, swallow tbe corner of a Virginian thorn fence, and have my wife tear all the bair out of nay head, than thus to be bamboozled by these gentlemen.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 384, 6 August 1869, Page 3
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78Untitled Star (Christchurch), Issue 384, 6 August 1869, Page 3
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