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Newspaper
Petersburg Daily Progress
Location
Petersburg, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1909
Page
4
An old New England tale mocks a parsimonious learned clergyman who hoards gifts and even sells them. On a routine cheese request his host families fill his carriage with nine cheeses, spilling from his laprobe as villagers laugh and reclaim the bounty. The parish enjoys the joke for generations.
Fragment from a dialogue features paired roles and exclamations such as The Confectioner Fudges The Chinaman Rats and The Diver Oh Splash plus a closing exchange about attending together in negligee and a refusal due to a pressing engagement at home.
Farmer Jimson reports Jason the Apple Bend storekeeper offers a special inducement by including a clove package with each patent medicine bottle. Deacon Miderberry asks if prices are cut.
A college professor at a reunion encounters a farmer who asks if he knows whether digging clams is agriculture or fishing. The exchange unfolds with playful banter and a rural coastal setting, highlighting the contrast between academic knowledge and practical work.
A humorous Irish Scottish tale unfolds with a Yank discovering a superior British garlic dog and losing a collie to a cheap English seller via a shepherd. A Kansas City debt case yields the lawyer’s wry line that a widow is all that can be attached. Central chatter rounds out with phone etiquette and shop mispricings.
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