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  ...excuse me," he interrupted; "what I want to ask is this: What date have you and your mother decided upon for our wedding?"
A Scotch beadle led the maiden of his choice to a churchyard and, pointing to the various headstones, said:
"My folks are all buried there, Jennie. Wad ye like to be buried there too?"
IMPECUNIOUS LOVER--"Be mine, Amanda, and you will be treated like an angel."
WEALTHY MAIDEN--"Yes, I suppose so. Nothing to eat, and less to wear. No, thank you."
The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.   --_Douglas Jerrold_.

PROPRIETY
There was a young lady of Wilts, Who walked up to Scotland on stilts; When they said it was shocking To show so much stocking, She answered: "Then what about kilts?"
--_Gilbert K. Chesterton_.

PROSPERITY
May bad fortune follow you all your days And never catch up with you.

PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH
One of our popular New England lecturers tells this amusing story.
A street boy of diminutive...   Jerrold, Douglas William

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