A Sunday teacher was giving a lesson on Ruth. She wanted to bring out the kindness of Boaz in commanding the reapers to drop handfuls of wheat. children, sliif said, " Boaz did another very nice thing for Ruth ; can tell me what iii was ?" " Married her," said a little miss of ten, blushing like a rose. The following letter of a St. Louis girl to her betrothed tells its own sad story. Not a word that we could say would add anything to the infinite pathos of this poor scrawl : "Dear Jack—Our engagement is off. I hear that your fatherls brother married a woman whose uncle belongs to the whisky ring." It's too awful for anything. I return a box of cardamon seeds I found on the sofa where you sat last night. You forlorn but resolute Edith." (tor continuation of netcs see tiupjiitment.J
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 4480, 23 March 1876, Page 3
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144Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 New Zealand Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 4480, 23 March 1876, Page 3
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