In one of Lover's Irish stories, the narrator, describing the feats of a very knowiog fox, tells how Master Reynard entered the cottage, sat down by the fire, and took up a •Roscommon Journal.' ' Oh, be aisy wid yer,' cried a listener, ' a fox read the paper ! I'm net going to believe that !' <To be sure,' replied the Other j *if a fox doesn't read tbe newsEapers, how is he to know where the ounds meet !' A Hopeful Aldebman. — An alderman Of a country town, being invited to attend a centennial jubilee, replied, ' I can't .. attend this one, but I'll go next time.'
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Wellington Independent, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3901, 4 September 1873, Page 3
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103Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Wellington Independent, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3901, 4 September 1873, Page 3
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