A VICTIM OF OVER-CONFIDENCE.
-~ ♦-? '.'Mr Billus," demanded his wife, freezingly, "what "is the meaning of that long, brown (hair, on your coat collar?" "It meajis, madam," retorted Mr Billus, " that I.m a chuckle-headed jay of the jayest .sort, ran a chump from Chumpton. That's what it means, Maria." "Explain yourself, sir." "One of the fellows at the office put that hair on my collar not an hour ago, and sa.id I didn't da.re to let it stay there. I said I did dare to. I said you were a woman of too much sense to notice such a little thing; I told* him. you wouldn't even see it. Ho offered to bet me a sovereign you would, anay! took him up, Maria!" snorted Mr Billus. "I took him np, and you've lost me a sovereign."
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7675, 7 April 1903, Page 3
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135A VICTIM OF OVER-CONFIDENCE. Star (Christchurch), Issue 7675, 7 April 1903, Page 3
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