FOR A DOUBLE PURPOSE.
A little girl came running into a draper's shop, and, going up to one of the assistants, she said: "Please, my muddcr wants to know if you have got any ribbon red one side and black the other?" The assistant inquired of her what ; t was for. She said : "My mudder wants to trim my hat with red ribbon for me to go to a party to-night, and my fadder is very ill and not expected to live, and if he should die my mudder don't want to have to go to the expense of buying new."
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Bush Advocate, Volume XVII, Issue 5, 7 January 1905, Page 6
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101FOR A DOUBLE PURPOSE. Bush Advocate, Volume XVII, Issue 5, 7 January 1905, Page 6
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