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Uncle John Woodley is responsible for the following, which he related to os today: A party at Chimacum has offered all his stock of cattle, hogs, sheep and chickens for sale nest Friday. John asked a Scandinavian neighbor the rea-bou. “Oh,” said the descendant of Odin.**the margats is eating him np.” “Maggots eating him up? Why, man, what’s tbe matter with him?” “I don’t mean the worm margats, I mean the paper kind,” says Odin- Then Uucle John found it was a mortgage and not maggots which was troubling his neighbor, and he says he felt glad, for he thought a new and terrible diaenco Lad appeared and if people were liable to have maggots Jin (Jbimaoum he wants to move away. We suggested to Uncle John to take out a few bottles of vermifuge, and distribute among his neighbors. “That,” said he, “is a pious plan, and I will try it.”
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Port Townsend Weekly Puget Sound Argus
Port Townsend, Washington, US
Thu, Sep 15, 1887
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