A FEW SMALL JOBS.
"Oh. George, dear, I have a little favour Pd like grou before you go to town Mrs JriLks tac other morning, as her husband was pitting on his overcoat. "Well, what is it?" N. "I wish you would Just help T iM\ i to move the .piano out of the sittiagroom and get down thoee bookcase*. And I want the couch carried out of th* room into the garden, -where it can he thoroughly dusted. And then, if yotr'ii jnst lend a hand in getting the carpet on the line, and help Susan beat it, and take down those .large pictures ou tbe sitting-room wall, and carry them out, so that all the dust can. 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, awl \ he flies off as if a mad bull "were after himX I never saw anything like it??
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 94, 20 April 1904, Page 5
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161A FEW SMALL JOBS. Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 94, 20 April 1904, Page 5
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