| She was a pretty young lady, with a sharp tongue. He was a cynic. Why, it w T ould be difficu'lt to guess. Perhaps he had just been rejected by his best girl; perhaps he had been unsuccessful in a limerick competition.
"Marriage/: he said, "is a mistake.”
j "Yes,” she replied, j "It is,” he repeated. Why should ' a young man marry when he can buy , a parrot for ten shillings ?” I "Ah !” she replied, and her prettybosom heaved with a long-drawn sigh. I "It’s just as it always is. We poor women labour under a great disadvantage. A bear, I understand, can : t be purchased for less than I £3Q 1”
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Northland Age, Volume IV, Issue 50, 3 August 1908, Page 2
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