HIS TEA PARTY.
♦ They happened to meet on Water-street, and as they sought a sonny spot and sat down on their boxes, the larger bootblack inqmred : "Say, Jefferson, why don't yer get up a New England tea party, and her some style abont them V " They hare 'em every ■week or two ; had one last night again," responded the small boy. " Many stylish folks on hand ?" t! Only three—dad, mam, and me. Dad came in about six o'clock, dancing 011 his high heel, and eve alt lumped un. and I kn» str wh bal jist up ear hot tie . the old man was wiping his nose with the window curtain, ami mam w.ts hunting under a chair for her missing front teeth. Was that a New England tea party I" " Might have been," solemnly replied the other, seeming to be lost in reflection.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 270, 15 March 1877, Page 4
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143HIS TEA PARTY. Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 270, 15 March 1877, Page 4
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