A Gentle Hint,—An Oakland man pleasantly sat down to breakfast, and his loving wife said, "Darling, does your, headache?" He replied with sufficient\ dignity, "No; why do you ask?" And' she said lack, " Well, dear, you came in at three o'clock this morning, and as you couldn't hang your hat on the rack, you put the rack down on the floor and said you'd hang every hat in the house on it; and I thought your head might ache," " Will you name the bones of the head ? " I've got them all in my head, Professor; but I can't give them." An exchange says tliofc Maggie Mitchell plays " Cricket" better than the Australian team. It is wonderful what children contrivo to boast. We heard one little girl telling another that "My father is taller, and handsomer, and cleverer than yours." For a moment the other looked rather put out, but suddenly brightening up, sho answered, " perhaps he is, but mine is much older than ypurs,"
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 153, 7 May 1879, Page 2
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