SHE HEARD NOTHING DROP.
"Yis, ma'am." "I am v«ry tired ard I am Roitig to lie down for an hour." "Yis, ma'am." "If I should happen to drop off, call me fit five o'clock. ''Zie, ma'am." So tny lady lies down, folds her hand?, closes her eyes and is soon in the laiid of dreams. She is suddenly awakened by tbo clock striking eis, and calls indignantly I "Delia!" '•Yi?i ma'am. 1 ' "Why didn't you call me at fire o'clock, as I ordered?" "Sure, ma'am, ye tould mo io call ye if ye dropped oif I looked in on ye at foive, and ye hadn't dropped off vt all. Ye was lyin' on the bed in the same place, fast asleep."
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Hot Lakes Chronicle, Issue 117, 27 February 1895, Page 3
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121SHE HEARD NOTHING DROP. Hot Lakes Chronicle, Issue 117, 27 February 1895, Page 3
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