EFFECTIVE BUT EXPENSIVE.
Mrs. Brown at last had found a oook —a really first-rate cook, bub one who, unfortunately, knew nothing about the manipulation of :i gas-stove. •-. Mrs. Brown, tiieveford, sent her husband to the kitchen to explain matters. This he proceeded to do very thoroughly, lighting each of the many burners in-order that the cook really might see hovr tiis range was operated. While lie was still explaining, a message called him from the kitchen. "Oh. well."' JiC remarked, us lie turned a« ay, ■"'you'll -soon le:-.rn how it works, won'/ yauf M.-irthn ?" Several days elapsed her'ove the master and en: k m.-t ".gnin. Then, one morning, Mr. .Isrf;v.r. happened" to meet Martha in the h-11. \ "Well." »■• axk.nl. "and .How's th« range doin^r" To his, is.'id Mrs. Tirown's utter, consternation, tins was the reply: "'Deed,'■sir. Lhr.t's the host stove I ever did sec. The lire you kindled for me four days a^o is still a-burning, and it ain't even lowered once! :>
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Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXIX, Issue 3999, 27 November 1918, Page 4
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162EFFECTIVE BUT EXPENSIVE. Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXIX, Issue 3999, 27 November 1918, Page 4
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