PHILOSOPHY OF A WOMAN.
That Mrs. ’Ubbard 'as got a nice ’ard-workin’ little ’usband. I wish I ’ad a couple like ’im. When my youngest was doin’ ’is ’ome-work last night ’e asked me what I’d ’ave if my old man gave ma four pounds ten three times. “A shock,” I says, Mrs. Tggins as been ’ad up again before the .magistrate. That makes nineteen times. Still, no woman’s perfect. My married girl’s getting on fine. ’Er ’usband’s scared to. death of ’er. When my old man came ’ome tha other night ’e kept on talking about a revolving bookcase ’e’d seen. I can’t understand it; ’e seemed quite sober. “Hello, hello! Who is it?” “Albert, sweetheart!’’ • “Who? I can’t hear you!” “ALBERT, darling—A for apple. L for Lionel, B for Bertram, E for Edward. R for Robert, T for Tommie!” "Yea. hut which of yon bnya is spanking?”
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Cromwell Argus, Volume LXI, Issue 3167, 15 June 1931, Page 2
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149PHILOSOPHY OF A WOMAN. Cromwell Argus, Volume LXI, Issue 3167, 15 June 1931, Page 2
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