Teacher: "I wish every member of the class to write a conversation between a grocer and one of his customers, introducing sonv? pathetic incident or reference.” One of the compositions was the following:—"What do you want?” asked the merchant. The woman replied: “A pound of tea.” "Green or black?” asked the merchant. "I think I’ll take black,” she said; "it’s for a funeral.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 24 November 1938, Page 7
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