MRS. SMITH'S BAD COLD.
Old Smith was busy in his backyard with saw and hatchet, while his wife nursed a bud cold in the house, when a neighbour came to the fence. " Good - morning, Mr. Smith," he said. "How is Mrs. Smith this morning ?" " Just about the same," old Smith replied. " She didn't sleep verv'well last nichi" '"That's too bad," the neighbour sympathised; and .then, as a raucous sound caipo from the house, he added solicitiouslv: "I suppose that is her coughing, ain't, it?" " No." old Smith answered absent-mindedly, bis eyes still on in? work; " it ain't her cofiin; it s a new nenhouse."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20288, 22 June 1929, Page 5 (Supplement)
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