“That puts the wind up yer.” ‘‘He's jnckorlon now.” “Go on, Mary, take some, roses off that, wreath for a buttonhole.” Those (says the Lyttelton Times) are frairmeiits garnered from a conversation which was conducted by nine little girls in a city cemetery on a recent afternoon as they clambered round an open grave wherein the coffin had been placed but a short time before. Some of them were in their early teens, and by their insolent bravado led the younger ones to he riotously appreciative of their sallies. Thoughtlessness might have been the cause of their action, bait probably it was aided by a faulty training in some quarter.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18760, 13 January 1923, Page 13
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