A dog has a remarkable scent, but after he has employed it once on a burning coal he seldom takes the pride in it that he did in his younger days. Many a husband is lost in wonder as he reflects that the glowing band which spanks his children and serves up his cabbage is the very same on which he used to write sonnets, and which he never kissed without a sense |of reverence amounting to rapture>
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 328, 23 July 1889, Page 4
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78Untitled Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 328, 23 July 1889, Page 4
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