HER REASON.
.Ja.nu was ;t good servant, but she li;id :i decided objection to prilling st.-ak thoroughly. After sending to table an example more glaring than usual. her mistress summoned her, Jane appeared wearing an air of injured innocence. •Will you kindly remove this piece of raw meal," said her mistress. "Yes, mum." said .Tain". "I knew I should have trouble with that steak, mum." she added. "The butcher said it was part of the most obstinate animal he had ever known. lie said it would never enter a field through the gale in the ordinary way, always jumped over the hedge ; and when at last it was taken to the slaughterhouse it refused to bo killed in the usual manner, but actually lay down and died. How could Ibe expected to tame such an unmanageable brute as that, mum ?" And .lane then left the room with her nose at an angb» of forty-five degrees.
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Lake County Press, Issue 2138, 4 October 1906, Page 7
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155HER REASON. Lake County Press, Issue 2138, 4 October 1906, Page 7
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