"If I Wuz Rich."
« Two razeed little children were standing on the kerbstone watching the carriages as they drove up and stopped to let out' their ocoupmta. The street waifs were dirty and ragged, and no doubt hungry, for the basket they carried between them was empty, and the face of the younger of the two was tear? ataioed. " They must be awful rich," he said to the girl at his side. " Jimmy," she answered, " d'ye know wot I'd do if. l wuj rich as— as mud, like them? I'd jes Bet up straight in my carriage, an' if th.c folks didn't get out o' the way I'd run over 'em, so I wud." " I wouldn't," s»id Jimmy, slowly, and solemnly. "If I wuz rich I wouldn't want no car rid go. nor bosses, nor notbin'. I'd go jest as fast as ever I cud to heven an' bring me mudder back agen." He finished with a sob, and the girHooked at him with an air of superior disdain. " You're a silly," she said, but her voice was soft, and she took his band, in ben as they moved, away.
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Mataura Ensign, Issue 19, 13 August 1895, Page 2
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190"If I Wuz Rich." Mataura Ensign, Issue 19, 13 August 1895, Page 2
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