CHAPTER 111.
Mr. McGinness was beginning to see that bo stood in need of a companion to take the place of the late defunct Mrs. McGinness. His suspenders, pants and socks stood sadly in need of darning.and Mr. McGinness stated emphatically that, " he'd be darned if he didn't get Borne one to darn 'em."
He well knew that it was late in life, perhaps, to arrive at this conclusion. This he could plainly tell by the siderial regulating chronometer which he had lately procured at tbe enormsus outlay of 53. 6d., from the pawn shop of Mo.ses Shambaugh. It was precisely four o'clock thirteen minutes and ten seoonds in the afternoon when ho arrived at the conclusion intimated at the beginning of this chapter ; thiß being the precise moment that he ripped the leg of his venerable trousers and burst his laßt suspender, and likewise ripped out the horrible execration above recorded.
He would, in fact, have made a good impersonator of Eip Van Winkle without any further "make-up," for he was all "Rip."
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Tuapeka Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1870, 13 February 1892, Page 2 (Supplement)
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