"Yes, Robert! But O! do look at the excellent evening glow on yon distant
hills! How solemn!! How sublime!"
"O! stunning. Well, _then_ I measured the scullery: six feet by ten...
that'll just do, won't it?"]
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[Illustration: PRIMARY ROCK]
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THE EFFECT OF GETTING MARRIED.--"Poor Dick! how sadly he is altered
since his marriage!" remarked one friend to another. "Why, yes, of
course," replied the other; "directly a man's neck is in the nuptial
noose, every one must see that he's a haltered person."
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A BAD PRE-EMINENCE.--What is there beats a good wife? A bad husband.
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QUESTION BY A SEWING MACHINE.--What is woman's true sphere?--The
_Hem_isphere.
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A MARRIAGE QUESTION.--If a man addicted to smoking marries a widow, does
it follow that he must lay down his pipe, because she gives up her
weeds?
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A READY-MADE REJOINDER.--_He._ "You made a fool of me when I married
you, ma'am!" _She._ "Lor! You always told me you were a self-made man!"
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MEM. BY AN OLD MAID.--If you "look over your age," you won't find anyone
else willing to do the same.
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[Illustration: MAFEKING NIGHT
(_Or rather_ 3 A.M. _the following morning_)
_Voice_ (_from above_). "Good gracious, William! Why _don't_ you come to
bed?"
_William_ (_huskily_). "My dear Maria, you know it's been the rule of my
life to go to bed shober--and I can't posh'bly come to bed yet!"]
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