"I -would box your ears/’ said a young lady to her stupid and tiresome admirer, “if " "If what?" he asked, anxiously, “If/ 1 she repeated, "I could get a box large enough for the purpose. ' They mot at a dinner for the first time since their meeting in Paris the previous week. "And did - you have a pleasant crossing?’' asked the hostess. "We did—very/' was the answer. "You were not ill, I hope?” asked the hostess, turning to the wife. "Ko-o." said the yonng wife, "I was not. But I couldn’t have yawned often." Father; “Dorothy, if you disobey again I aljall spank you." On father's return home that evening, Dorothy acknowledged that she had again disobeyed, Father (firmly): "You remember what I said? fou may choose your own time. "When shall it be?” Dorothy (five years old, thoughtfully); "Yesterday."
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8366, 28 February 1913, Page 9
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