The Archive · 1938

Five-Year Tale

A cLemcYMaM, visiting an old lady who was very hard of hearing, noticed that she was using a special make of ear-trumpet which he had often recommended to her.

"That's splendid," he said; "thats what I've been telling you to get for the last five years."

"Oh! so that's what you're been telling me foe the last five years, is it?" replied the old lady.

Points of View "Tae man who smokes, and acts like a' Samaritan, thinks like a sage —Bulwer-Lytton, "A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to ihe lungs, and in the black stinking fume there-Of nearest resembling the horrible—Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless"—King James I.

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