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"_Time and Cure._"--A good-looking and gentlemanly-dressed fellow was
arraigned on the charge of stealing a watch, which watch was found on his
person. It was his first offence, and he pleaded, "Guilty." The magistrate
was struck with the calm deportment of the prisoner, and asked him what
had induced him to take the watch.
"Having been out of health for some time," replied the young man,
sorrowfully, "the doctor advised me to take something, which I accordingly
did."
The magistrate was rather amused with the humor of the explanation, and
further inquired why he had been led to select so remarkable a remedy as a
watch.
"Why," replied the prisoner, "I thought if I only had the _time_, Nature
might work the _cure_."
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_Dye-stuff._--During the cholera time of 1864, in Hartford, Conn., a
little girl was sent to a drug store to purchase some dye-stuff, and
forgetting the name of the article, she said to the clerk, "John, what do
folks dye with?"
"Die with? Why, the cholera, mostly, nowadays."
"Well, I guess that's the name of what I want. I'll take three cents'
worth."
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