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A Surprised Father

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
December
Year
1865
Copyright
Public Domain
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■A fine looking man, oí. noble physique, and ciad m overooat, glovea and stout boots, was walking out the Other day with his iittle throe ycar-old ihmghler, a palo faced chïld, with bare Deck aad artns, and inorocoo slippers. A neighbór, meeting thein, bögun to ask wilh apparent concern after the father's health, ftáding - ' But I am glad your Iittle one does not inherit your. feeble coustiutiun.' ' Feeble eonstitution!' Exclaimed the astonished parent. ' Why, I wns never nick a day in my lift;, while, as to ray diuitihter, we feir she haa hor metber'l consul npt ivo tendeneies.' ' Indeed !' P.ephed liis friünd, with a sly twinkle of tós eye ' You take extra cr.re to protect. youraclf trom the cold, while she goa-s bare Docked and iu paste board shoos. I inferred tlii.t you iuhciit ed the raother's consumptive tendencies and nol sho.' - - ii i ■ i n i sg" Goodness is g.iodness, find it where we may. A vincyard esists for the purpose of ourturing vinos, but he would be a Btrango vine-drenser who denied the realitj of grapea becnuso they had ripened uuder a loss genial soil, and bevond the precincts of bis vineyard. Gv. Dillingham, of Vt.,has appointcd the Chicf Justioe ot the Supreme Court, Hou. Luke P. Poland, of St. Ji.inisbnrg, to fill tho vncancy in tbe United States Senate occasioned by tbe death of Senator Collamer.

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Subjects
Old News
Michigan Argus