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a gap into a wrong field; he sent the dog over to drive 

 them out into their own field and walked on, expecting the 

 dog to follow, but when at the end of a mile the farmer 

 found the dog was not coming, he turned back to discover 

 the cause of the delay. " And what dew ye think he were 

 doing ? " said the narrator, with a guileless face. Truly, 

 I could not imagine, but I was prepared for a whacker. 

 "As true as I'm a living man," he said, "he was walling 

 that gap up." 



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Two newly married ladies were discussing their husbands. 

 " You will forgive me, I know, Madge," said one, " but if I 

 were you, I would not permit your husband to take a 

 whisky flask with him when he goes fishing. My husband, 

 you know, is a fisherman, and he says it is one of the most 

 injurious practices a man can follow to keep whisky 

 nipping at the river-side." " Oh ! Kate," says the other, 

 " you do Uriah wrong ; he has not tasted a drop of liquor 

 since we were married ; he found out an invaluable cure for 

 it, and now he never tastes." " Indeed, my dear," says 

 the other, " I am delighted to hear it ; and what is the 

 cure ? " " Oh, it is the simplest thing in the world ; it is 

 cloves." 



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I once heard a man say that if you want to hear sound 

 sense practically set forth, he knew no better place to hear 

 it than in a third class railway carriage. Whether this is 

 true or not, it is certain one may now and then hear a very 

 funny remark or story in railway trains. I remember two 

 men talking at length about an acquaintance, and when 

 they had gone through the man and his belongings, 

 one said to the other " And is he respectable, like ? " 

 " Respectable ! " amazed at such a question, " why, man, 

 he blows 't organ at a chapel." Some years ago I was 



