Varieties.
A thief's career, like^a^gractical ' joke,, usually ends in a cell. ■ ' Young ladies who play croquet are known**" 1 in America as " maidens all for lawn." A green-looking countryman once walked into the office of Dr C. T. Jackson, the chemist. "Dr Jackson I presume," said he. «' Yes, sir." " Are you alone." vjSfiMksir." " May I lock the door ? " And 'H-HW so ; and having looked behind the sofa and satisfied himself that no one else was in the room, he placed a large bundle, done up in a yellow ' bandanna on the table, and opened it. " There Doctor, look at that." " Well," said the Doctor, " I see it." « What do you call thafc, Doctor ? " "I call it iron pyrites." " What," said the man, " isn't that stuff gold ?"■ " No," said the Doctor. " It's good for nothing ; its pyrites." And putting some over the fire in a shovel, it evaporated up the chimney. " Wai," said the poor fellow, with a woebegone look, " there's a widder woman up in our town bas a whole hill full of tbat, and I've been and married her I *"
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 491, 13 December 1869, Page 3
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181Varieties. Star (Christchurch), Issue 491, 13 December 1869, Page 3
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