"CONSTANT DRIPPING "
Tho Stono family wore in dire distress. Times wero harder even than flic family patronymic, niul little Bobby was. getting tired of it. Principally he Mi.'foied from a surfpit of bread and dripping. A sl'ira of this dainty comestible formed his breakfast, pikl vovy often, alas! his dinner and supper. Ono day- ho rebelled openly. "1 don't want dripping!" ho sobbed. "I wtr)r»t butter!" "Bo thankful for what you can pot. l cried his mother. "Dripping will do you moro good." "Tt won't. It's killing mo! Ivo been feelino; bad lately, and now I've found out from a book that it's dripping that's doinsr mo all- tho harm!" "Why, what rubbish has the boy got hold oh" "'Taint, rubbish! It's tho truth! I «aid constant drinping wears away a tlone. And it's right!" Doctor: Whooping cough hr.s broken out in Germany. T'ittlo Maud: It must bo awful to have to cousrh in German.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 150, 21 December 1907, Page 18
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155"CONSTANT DRIPPING " Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 150, 21 December 1907, Page 18
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