“I am willing!’’ said the candidate, after he had hit vhe table a terrible blow with bis first, “to trust tl.ie people.” “My!” yelled a little man in the audience. ‘T wish you’d open a grocery,” A scholar at a local night-school inadvertently spelled the word Venice with two “n’s.” The teacher., a clever man, but not always a correct speaker, .sternly inquired: “Do you not know, young man, that there ;* only one ‘hen’ in Venice?” ‘‘Then eggs must be very scare there, sir 1” was the ready reply. What is a gentleman? A gentleman is one who does not care whether he i§ one not.—Sir Herbert Tree.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3715, 28 December 1912, Page 3
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108Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3715, 28 December 1912, Page 3
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