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Factory, and Saddlers Ironmongery Department, Murray'st., Perth
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" That's what some sales' ladies display when you ask to see some A tramp, wandering footsore, mad thing cheaper ? " weary for the sake of avoiding work. Galled at the door of a country He-There's one thing I will say farmhouse, and said he would like you make quite as well as your mosomething to eat. " Are you so ther used to make it. hungry? " " No ma'am, not su She-What's that ? hungry, but kind of faint. I could He-Trouble. sat a bit of cold chicken." " It seems to me that you are pretty " Jane Stubbles is so delightfully fastidious for an itinerant." "y imaginative and sentimental." ma'am I am that ma'am. That'.; " What's the proof of it ? just what ails me. f had that itin" Why, she is always going down erant so had that was laid UP to the with it six weeks last month. It, rejected morgue to see if one of her lovers hasn't destroyed him seemed to take me in the spine of me neck, ma'am, an' ever since uo thin' rests so eaey in me as c A good story comes from Wolgart, opieken.' in Germany, of which a young gill is the heroine. This young lade The First Day Out-steward--Did was curious to know wh ther postlieu ring, sir cards were read by the local poet Traveller-Yes, steward, I-I rang. office officials. The, idea therecore. I Steward-Anything I can brine, curred to her of writing a poet you, sir card to a friend (who was, of course eteaew rd Travel ler-Y-yee forewarnel), etatine that Count Zen bring me a continent, if roil have pelin was eipeelee In ,,rrive tt,rt, it steward one, or an island-anything, his airship on a certain Thurslas so 1-lul-long as it's solid. If roe The remit of h -r experiment was in can't, sue-sink the ship. terrotinr. On that day no fewel ,
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ventions arrive. The fact was el., " What ? Dead Why did ye to quest enough. The disappointment of the visitors when they learned that tell me? " " Ah no-no--no," said Donald, be there would be no flight may easily surmised. He never, the lady " A'm no that kind o' man to dieswas not, we presume, disappointed turb a convivial evening. "-Pit -bits, at the telling result of her joke. PROOF POSITIVE. MIGHT HAVE BEEN WORSEFrom America comes a very good Mrs. Gabbeby-M I was at the story of an incident which happendentist's this afternoon, and he ed when Admiral Evans wag in cone made me keep my mouth open a mend of the Indiana. An old-time whole point. It nearly. killed nee blue-jacket was at the mast before Mrs. Stillwater-Yee, but it miglq Captain Evans charge with getting have been worse. lf he had made food out of a moss chest outside you keel your mouth shut for half meal hours. This getting 4 that time it would have killed you the food for night watches is a common without a doubt. and strong desire on the part of most men aboard ship. CONSIDERATE. Four old Scotchmen, the remnant Captain Evan., asked the man what of a club formed some fifty years he had to say and the man suing ago, were seated around the table in up the delicate situation said :the club room. 11 was a.m., and " Captain I didn't take no food Dougal looked across at Donald. outer that cheat. Why, captain these and said in a thick. sleepy voter weren't no food in that chest. I " Donald d's.e notice what an aw- looked in that chest, and, Captain, ill' peculiar expeeeien thee is (At I met a cockroach coming out of Jock's face ?" that -11,0 w"' '.e -Js 'n hie eves. !
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