OFFERED A SUGGESTION.
A well-known lecturer was once iavited to tea at a certain house. Immediately on being seated at the tablet a little daughter of the house said to the guest abruptly:
"Where is your wife?" The lecturer, who had recently separated from his better half, wee surprised and annoyed at the question, and stammered forth t ' "I don't know." .. * "Don't know?" repeated the chili. "Why don't you knowf <>
Finding the child persisted In her interrogations, despite the mild reprotJl of her parents, he decided to make * clean breast of the matter and hart it over at once, so he said with calm* ness: s . ;.
"Well, we don't lire togther. Wβ think as we can't agree we'd bettet not."
He stiffied a groan as the child started again, and darted an exasperated look at her parents. But the little torment would not W quieted until she exclaimed: % ;-^i "Can't agree? Then why don't joi fight it out, the same as father ana mother do?"
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 230, 26 September 1903, Page 2 (Supplement)
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