A SMALL FAVOUR.
'0, George, dear, I have a little favour I'd like to ask before you go down-town this morning,'' said Mrs Jooks the other morning. •Well, what is it?' 'I wish that you would just- help Lizzie move the piano out of the sit-ting-room and help her get those big1 book-cases and that great heavy couch out of the room. I want the couch carried out into the yard, where it can be thoroughly beaten. And then, if you'll just help get the carpet up and out on the line, and help Susan beat and shake it, and help her take down those large pictures on the sit-ting-room wall, and cany them out so that the dust can all be brushed off the back, and—well, if he hasn't gone! That's just- like a man! Ask him to do any little thing about the house and he flies off faster than if a conscript officer were after him to carry him off to war! I never saw anything like it!'
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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 29, 4 February 1899, Page 5 (Supplement)
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