So Very Awkward, You Know!
Jones and the new tenor, whom he met one morning last week at rehoarsal for tho flrafc time, were walking homo together, as they both chanced to be going in the' same direction, and tho conversation turned upon the varied aspects of the villas they were piwsing "Do you know," said Jones, " I verily bdlieve that any person of »v obssrvaut nature could tell, solely from (he outride a«p"cb of the house, what sott of a family would be found within." " I think it highly probable," rep'iid the now tenor ; "for, as with onVs cloiihou, tb.3 habitation often seems to pub on (soinethiug of the nature of those residing butween its walls, co to spe»k " "That's it exactly," rounded Jones. " Now, you see that place over there— where the front steps are dirty and the gate swings half open? I should say, judging from the weeds on the front ga den path, and the dirty, ne^kcted state of the vmido.vs and curtains, that the man was a c* roles?, indolent fellow and the wife a slut — people who ace ntraugero nliko to s comforfc, cheerfulness, and hospitality." "Well," answered his companion, "maybe you're right. Anyway, that's my houae; co unless you care to come and have an introduction to tbe slut, my wife, and to have a little of something with me, the euole.-s, indolent fellow, I'll gay good morning ! "
So Very Awkward, You Know!
Otago Witness, Issue 2206, 11 June 1896, Page 52
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