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Some rascally wag poetizes as follows, on the marriage of Miss Jane Lemon to Ebenezer Sweet:
How happily extremes do meet
In Jane and Ebenezer;
She’s no longer sour, but Sweet,
And he’s a Lemon-squeezer.
The Berkshire County Eagle (Pittsfield, Massachusetts) Jun 18, 1858
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Mathematical Matrimony
Ephriam: “Whut you all call it when a girl gits maried three times — Bigotry?”
Mose: “Lawsy, boy, you suttenly am a ignoramus. Why, when a girl gits married two times, dat am bigotry, but when she tries it three times, dat am trigonometry.”
– Successful Farming.
Decatur Herald (Decatur, Illinois) Oct 24, 1929
