AND HE WAS CUT OFF.
The telephone girl and the ledger clerk, to whom she had promised her heart and hand, were seated by the fireside dreaming of the happy future when they would be one. From one little detail to another the talk finally drifted to the subject of lighting the fires in the morning. On this point the young man was decided. He stated it as his emphatic opinion that it was a wife's place to get up and light the fires, and let the poor, ✓ hard-wrought husband* rest. (| After this declaration there was*! wlence for about half-a-second, then the girl thrust out her finger encircled by a ring, and murmured sweetly, but firmly—- " Ring off, please ; you have got connected with the wrong number !" About two hundred oysters would be required daily to supply a sulllcent nourishment for one person. "Would you kindly give me a subscription, ma’am," said the loafer, "for a society I belong to ?*' "What is the society ?" "It's a public society. We enter houses for the purpoeo of potting i '<hkra the drink." 11
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Northland Age, Volume 4, Issue 3, 3 September 1907, Page 6
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181AND HE WAS CUT OFF. Northland Age, Volume 4, Issue 3, 3 September 1907, Page 6
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