Only Sunburnt.
Last summer two little girls in a Streatham family were repeatedly remonstrated with by their indulgent mother for playing bareheaded in the sun. “ You will be burnt so badly,” said she to them finally, “ that people will think you are black children,” Her warning had no effect, however, and she gave up trying to keep their hats on. < )ne day she sent them to a neighbour to make some enquiries concerning a washerwoman. Mrs. Smith, the neighbour in question, mistook them for the children of a Mrs. Black, who lived in another street near by. “You aie the little Black children, are you not?” she asked. “ Oh, no,” came the prompt response from the elder. “ Only sunburnt.”
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Northland Age, Volume VI, Issue 3, 6 September 1909, Page 3
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119Only Sunburnt. Northland Age, Volume VI, Issue 3, 6 September 1909, Page 3
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