A miserly old man visited one of bis relatives uninvited. One morning his little niece of five approached him unexpectedly with, the indignant question: “Uncle, are you a cannibal?” The old man was startled, and said: “No, of cotirso not, my dear; but wliat on earth makes you ask?” The little girl replied: “Ob, I thought you must bo, because mamma was saying this morning just as you came in that you always lived on vour relations,’’
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 29 November 1933, Page 10
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77Untitled Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 29 November 1933, Page 10
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